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Cucumber resting on the mulch

I snapped a few pictures of my raised beds this morning. The cucumbers are finally starting to look a little better. I have read that the slow growing is likely due to the amount of rain that we’ve received this spring. It’s been a very wet year so far. This being our first year gardening I’ve also been watering, and likely over-watered, my seedlings while they were still inside. It’s a learning experience

The cucumber plants are still smaller than I’d expected them to be by this time, but there are blossoms and cucumbers popping up in several places.

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This will just be a short post to give an update on our SFG for June.

Most of the plants are gaining in size, but with our late seed starting I think we are still a little behind where we should be. I think the broccoli and lettuce should have been harvest-able by this point had we gotten things started at the recommended time. Hopefully we will see heads form and grow before it gets too warm.
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Mushrooms in my SFG

I have mushrooms growing in my SFG.

I’m not very sure what’s going on here. I’ve pulled up a few mushrooms over the last couple of weeks, but we seem to have gotten an explosion. I am assuming that the beds are too wet and spores have blown in somehow. Though this bed did have some leaf mold as part of the compost mix where the other two beds didn’t. I’ve seen one or two in the other beds, bu nothing like what we have going on in this one.

If anyone has advice please feel free to leave a comment.

I snapped a few pictures this morning of the new greenery in our SFG.

We have green things

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All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew

While cleaning up the debris from a tree that was blown over in a windstorm last September (2008) we found that the yard was pretty torn up so we decided to start a compost pile and think about turning that area into a small garden. After a bit of research we opted to try the Square Foot Gardening(SFG) method as its not a large space and we wanted to make the most of what we had.

The largest selling point to SFG is that you can grow more, in less space, with much less work. My family had a garden when I was growing up and, though I didn’t have to do a lot of work, the bits that I remember weren’t all that much fun. I do love tomatoes fresh from the garden, and if I can get them while not weeding constantly and having to till and turn every spring so much the better.

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