The raised bed contained peas, bush beans, red onions, green onions, yellow onions, romaine lettuce, bell pepper and a zucchini. Muttering – A hubbard squash is big and huge with a skin so thick you need a saw to get through it. I do not have a green thumb (more like a black thumb of death) but I am enjoying reading about your venture. The main bed contains peas, red onions, purple carrots, orange carrots, romaine lettuce, bell peppers, Swiss chard, spinach and a rogue garlic. You may need more room for the asparagus as it will spread and in a few years you may need to relocate the peas and zucchini areas. I learned that if you want more heat to your peppers, they need no fertilizer and little water. We started square foot gardening for the first time this year and guess what, we used that same program. These cool weather crops include peas, carrots, lettuces, Kale, Beets, Asparagus, Onions, Radishes, Parsnips, Spinach, Kale and Swiss Chard. Using the square foot method of gardening lets you harvest a lot more than the standard row planting. I’ve chosen to plant using a lesser known planting method called Square Foot Gardening. The garden planner allows you to pick where you live in the world and the program does the rest from there. Planting my garden was made infinitely easier by using a tool I found online at Mother Earth News. When I used to fight traffic and drive 2 hours into work every morning, waking up meant slumping in the general direction of the floor, angrily putting my feet down and swearing.
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