I'm taking your current veggie garden design series and just wanted to say thank you so much for teaching it!!! Going to class is the high point of my week, and I leave feeling so excited and invigorated! I can't believe how much I've learned in such a short period of time and how this new found knowledge causes me to look at the landscape in a whole new way. A big thanks for spending your Saturdays empowering others to grow their own food! :)
Remember what you said about trellissing and shading stone? I had a welder friend of mine make some brackets to hold my wooden trellis 1 ft away from the cinder block walls and they only cost me $6.25 ea to make! I will take a picture and send it along presently.
Wow! I can't believe I am learning so much at this tender old age of 45. New things I have learned in the last two weeks: Seasonally change the height of my mower (which I refer to as 'mulch harvesting' :-), I don't need a rooster to get eggs from chickens, and now this. I am pickled tink!
Remember the guy who came into your class with the big African squash and handed out seeds? I planted mine and now have a humongous squash plant that is starting to produce fruit. I was wondering if they have male and female flowers on the plant as all the flowers do not produce fruit.
Greetings Earth Goddess....I hear that you may be helping us with Coronado Garden a bit...look forward to working with ya again..how is your downtown plot going? Blessings.
For all the Designing a Veggie Garden Class: The companion planting calendar I mention is available by the link: http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/complant.html#chart
It is very well thought out and should be a great help!
Hi Heather,
I just took your four part class and you mentioned last week that there was a guide to companion planting that would be posted. Can you tell me where to find it on the site?
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It looks like there was a misposting on the newsletter that said that the veggie class started on 8/5, when in actuality it started on 8/15. I apologize for the confusion and this looks to have effected quite a few people. As we are coming…"
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Thanks again for the help. I will email Jennifer. Also, the pdf section of your web page doesn't have anything yet.
Thanks.
Jack
It is very well thought out and should be a great help!
I just took your four part class and you mentioned last week that there was a guide to companion planting that would be posted. Can you tell me where to find it on the site?
Thanks, Fred