DON'T LAUGH!!

I have the best of intentions - it's just that my follow-through isn't always top-notch. I put my grid down tonite - if you'd call it that. It's just yarn strung through eyes. And they aren't even straight! Ah well. And of course I put them in after I planted the lettuce - oops. It looks awfully goofy, but I'm hoping for good results. I might try for lathing when I go the big orange store next.

I added broccoli, leaf lettuce, and one row of carrot seeds today. My peas are coming up, as are the onions. No sight of the spinach - well, maybe a tiny, tiny one. They are in the 4 middle squares! We are expecting sun and 70* weather for the next few days, so hopefully everyone will be happy. And I'm just tickled that the lettuce is still there - the deer haven't found it yet.

And I finally bought the book last night - I know, I rarely do things in the proper order. I gave up on waiting for the library. But I'm glad I planted when I did. This really is so much fun! And I'm the only one at the community garden with plants in already. Yea me!

n.

I used nylon string and nails for my grids and they are still going strong this year (I figured it was cheap enough if I had to replace it each year, I didn't care). I think it looks great!

At least you have grids. So long as they work it doesn't matter what they look like. :clown:

I used string too!!!

I'll take a photo of mine and post tomorrow. Talk about wonky! I used some stout wire that had been rolled up. I laid it on the soil and fastened with zip ties. I straightened and straightened and straightened, but the durn thing still wants to curve. So I have curvy squares. But you know what? The plants are still happy.

Wow, I like it. I think it looks great! That's awesome you beat everyone on the first up. Don't think you are backwards at all. I read a newspaper article about SFG and started planning, read an article in a magazine and picked up pallets, then bought the book.

looks great!

i used string, too. only i used a staple gun to attach it all. works for me.

How do I take the pictures I uploaded into my personal garden and place them here or wherever people can look at them and give me pointers??


My eagerness gets the better of me on my planning sometimes.


Thanks!

Not a whole lot of change, but some seedlings have broken through. the onions are growing great and so are the peas. woo hoo! i don't usually do well with seeds, so this is very exciting for me.

this morning was the annual meeting with the community garden folks. lots of interesting information, but very little pertaining to actual gardening. more to do with when to call the police and what to do if a train stops over our drive for more than 20 minutes. hmmm... i found out there are over 150 plots, with only 20 or so still open. one guy has 9 of them - and they are 625 sq ft each! wow. so far i only have 1 4x4 box, but i have room for 9 (if they are all 4x4). i hope to have 3 or 4 by the end of the year.

i didn't water yesterday after a day of watching 3 neighborhood girls in addition to my own and since it was supposed to rain today, i didn't water today either. i hope it actually rained. i was at my mom's with my brother & nephew - hurray! the garden looked pretty good this morning, so hopefully my babies are fine.

Happy Easter!

n.

I only use string, kite string that is. For me it's the best way to use so I can remove it and add compost to my soil in the spring. Much easier mixing all that in without the grid on top! Can't imagine any other way!

We love our kite string

Happy SFG'ing!

Jen in NE Indiana

I just used some yarn I had lying around. It is straight though. I measured to get the squares even and just used thumb tacks to wrap the yarn around. In the middle I couldn't use thumb tacks because of the plastic connector so I just used a small adhesive hook. This isn't the best photo to show the grid but I can't take a better one right now because it's supposed to go down to 30 tonight and I put my plastic cover back on.

Hey SFG in Chicago - gorgeous boxes! So far I'm happy with my yarn, with the exception that I planted before I put the "grid" down and my lettuce and onions aren't in their boxes. Ah well.

Tonite I made burritos for dinner and used my own lettuce!! It's so very exciting!

Hey I often do things out of order too. So great to be able to eat things you've grown. My lettuce is a little too small yet, but I started it a little late I think. The one in the pic, 3rd square from the right is one I bought. I've since planted my own starts but they're still tiny. I'm new to the midwest, I'm from FL so I don't really know what I'm doing yet.