Wow, great looking layout. I warn you about the cauliflower, it will shade the entire bed.

Other than that, I'm not sure garlic can be planted that close. And it needs to be planted before you head to Arizona this fall and harvested when you get back next summer, so I've read.

Other than that, looks yummy! I haven't planted romaine because I figured it to be a head lettuce and I want leaf to pick and pick again, but it seems it can be if you only pick the outer leaves.

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I think you're right about the cauliflower. I should trade places with the romaine, then the lettuces will be harvested before the cauliflower gets too large and the cauliflower and peppers can have room to grow. I've never grown romaine, but I'm willing to give it a try. I have some red leaf lettuce growing right now (planted last month) and so far it's holding up to the heat, but it's supposed to get up to 105F this weekend, so I might lose it yet. I have a 4'x4' sheet of white lattice that I have propped up on buckets over the bunny greens for shade, but they look rather heat stressed too.

Have you harvested any potatoes from your boxes yet? I'm thinking of putting some in a hardware cloth cylinder next year. When I had a big garden, one year I grew 4# Kennebecks! One potato would feed the whole family, and not a scab or hollow heart in any of them. But I had a lot of room, and a lot of horse manure and straw. I ran a trench of manure and straw in between the potato rows, so the fresh manure didn't touch them. Worked great.

Granny

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Granny - I love the way you put the little photos of things on your layout. I'm very impressed.

EG

i know, i want to know how in the world you do that!!! LOL
i have a friend, he's older, and he grows potatos'' but he puts them on top of the ground, then puts lots of straw on them. he say's i'll NEVER dig a trench again. i'll do it this way from now on!! LOL he's just great!! today i decided to clean the house instead of schooling and tomarow we'll school. hubs sleeps all day anyhow so it won't matter either way!! LOL
~Medo

EG, that's what happens on a slow day ;-) I did have colored circles, squares and ovals. That looks like a patchwork quilt and gives me some idea of the colors and textures that would look pretty in the garden.

Like I said, I'll change my mind a hundred times before spring...then probably just plant willy-nilly when I do, but in the meantime I'm having fun.

Granny

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Medo, that's what I want to try (straw). I have a whole big roll of hardware cloth to make the cage with. My grandmother always buried her potato peelings when she trench composted, and she got a lot of them that way, just volunteering. They weren't the best looking, kind of puny, but they were free.

Granny

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