Starting my raised beds
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
August 24, 2010 7:29pm CST
On Saturday, my favorite cousin (the one hard to please at diner time) took me to buy the lumber for the raised beds I want to make this Spring. I am hoping that I´ll have some veggies. They will be very expensive this first yesr but I do hope the cost of the raised beds will be paid in a year or two.
Today I went to my daughter´s for lunch and she had bought tomato and onion seedlings. Fortunatly for me she had bugh too much so she gave me half. If only some of they grow to be plants, I´ll have more than my needs.
So, as you see, we are starting to prepare for Spring in the southern part of the planet. I will need all the advise I can have so please share your experiences in vewgetable gardening if you are into it.
Happy posting!
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4 responses
@moonchild1au (6237)
• Australia
25 Aug 10
That was nice of your daughter to give you half of the seedlings that she didn't need as this will save you some money...being in Australia, I'm in the same hemisphere as you...I planted tomatoes, brocoli, cabbage, corn, beans & capsicum about 4 months ago...I picked my first ripe tomato yesterday 
... my brocoli & all of my cabbages but 1 were destroyed by insects & grubs before they had a chance to grow 
...I am still waiting for the corn & capsicums to grow & bear their veges...my bean plants have grown a few beans but the plants are still too small to grow too many so there's not much for a side dish for a meal...My 3 year old daughter & myself planted some cloves of garlic yesterday that we found were starting to shoot in our vege bin so hopefully they grow as I have been told that 1 clove of garlic will grow a bulb.
I hope your vege gardens do well.
... my brocoli & all of my cabbages but 1 were destroyed by insects & grubs before they had a chance to grow ...I am still waiting for the corn & capsicums to grow & bear their veges...my bean plants have grown a few beans but the plants are still too small to grow too many so there's not much for a side dish for a meal...My 3 year old daughter & myself planted some cloves of garlic yesterday that we found were starting to shoot in our vege bin so hopefully they grow as I have been told that 1 clove of garlic will grow a bulb.
I hope your vege gardens do well.@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
25 Aug 10
We have had an awful Winter, moonchild, so frost is just begining to get out of the way. I hope to have tomatoes, sweet pepper, leeks, Brussel sprouts and arugula. I will also plant zuchinni and cucumber. A little of everything though as it´s only a backyard and not a farm
. I did plant some cloves of garlic that were sprounting and I am using the green part to add a touch of class to my salad dressings. I dom´t know whether they will turn into a bulb yet, but they have already been useful and delicious.
. I did plant some cloves of garlic that were sprounting and I am using the green part to add a touch of class to my salad dressings. I dom´t know whether they will turn into a bulb yet, but they have already been useful and delicious.@moonchild1au (6237)
• Australia
25 Aug 10
Our winter has been mild but we've had more rain than usual...I hope your vege gardens work out for you...you could even sell the excess veges out the front of your house with an honesty box 
@moonchild1au (6237)
• Australia
25 Aug 10
At least you know that your/their vegies won't go to waste & that they will be appreciated
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
25 Aug 10
gOOD MORNING mARG, Sounds like u are making a good start. Hope u have great luck w/them. Don't worry i will give u no advice. Anyone that can grow a 5'tomato plant w/no tomatoes doesn't need to be giving out advice, lol.
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
26 Aug 10
You could use your tomato plant for shade, Jo. I´ll probably have the most expensive veggies this year with the cost of the raised beds. But I mst confess that the beds are a birthday gift from my sister. She told me to go ahead and she would pay for them. I will only ask them for the cost of the lumber and such though and will pay for my helper out of my own pocket. It is too big a gift to accept it.
. I´ll probably have the most expensive veggies this year with the cost of the raised beds. But I mst confess that the beds are a birthday gift from my sister. She told me to go ahead and she would pay for them. I will only ask them for the cost of the lumber and such though and will pay for my helper out of my own pocket. It is too big a gift to accept it.1 person likes this
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
26 Aug 10
Good idea. Marg. i'll take me a chair out there today, lol. That was nice of your sister to do that. U are so blessed to have her. Wish i still had mine. Happy thursday to u. Hope u grow great things in your new beds,
@primeaque86 (8108)
• Philippines
25 Aug 10
I grew up in the province so i had a little knowledge about gardening. We were even taught in our school different ways to grow plants. First thing, you have your seedlings ready, and it should be appropriate in your area. . . Sometimes plants would just grow well in a particular area or temperature. . . I do not know what is your atmosphere there during that time as we have 2 seasons only here in the philippines. . . But anyway plants will grow healthy with enough water or moist, fertile soils and enough sunlight. At first, you to expose them in the early sun, they might not survive with too much heat so you can provide them shelter in the first week or two. Good luck in your gardening friend.
@primeaque86 (8108)
• Philippines
25 Aug 10
that is wonderful friend, and how about this picture? I forget to ask them when I type my response because i was doing it on my phone... now I can see it clearly... is that the place you are going to plant them How nice, I guess those plants would grow vigorously then!
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
25 Aug 10
Thanks for sharing, primeaque. My seeds are starting to show up in the containers where I started them. I bought them here so I suppose the are for my country. Most of my plants I will finally put looking at the morning sun with some of the midday summer sun. But the afternoon sun gives too much heat here so I will only place in that position my zuchinni and maybe try out some beans too. Right now I have the containers in the terrace which has a policarbonate roof. Otherwise they would have been killed by frost. I will leave the parsil, the chives and the coriander in the containers where they are now.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36847)
• Pamplona, Spain
25 Aug 10
Hiya margi,
Sorry I don´t have "green Fingers" what I did used to have was a garden spade and Garden Clippers and trowel and rake to do all the work that my "brothers" never used to do. So I did it instead little ole me used to do all the garden work sometimes so that is all I know how to do. Don´t know anything about planting or the rest of it just digging and turning the earth over and cutting the grass and of course pulling out the weeds and shaping flower beds too.
Of course I did not do it all the time as it was quite a big Garden for a tiny little girl like me but I was always busy than a beaver in there keeping it all tidy.
Good luck with your planting though they should take quite easily I do know that if they can survive English Weather they will survive anywhere.
