ragtimegal
02-09-2009, 11:10 AM
Hi Everyone,
I am new to vegetable gardening and decided one day that I wanted to plant one. I spent many backbreaking hours outside and dug 4 rows, approx. 12" deep x 12"wide, spaced approx 12" apart and about 5' long. It is on a slope, so I dug them going across the slope versus up/down it. I filled each row with bagged garden soil. This was before reading anything about vegebale gardening and finding this site. Everyone appears to be planting above ground gardens. Will my in ground garden work as well? I am also thinking I should have gone deeper now. Should I dig the rows deeper or just dig the entire 8'x5' area so that all of the soil is loose? (I dug rows because of the slope, so I'm not sure how that would work) I don't mind going back and digging more, but I did plant onions in the bottom row, which are coming up nicely I might add. :) I definitely want to go organic (too bad I already put the garden soil in), so I want to make sure everthing is right moving forward.
Any help or advice that you have would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Angela
I am new to vegetable gardening and decided one day that I wanted to plant one. I spent many backbreaking hours outside and dug 4 rows, approx. 12" deep x 12"wide, spaced approx 12" apart and about 5' long. It is on a slope, so I dug them going across the slope versus up/down it. I filled each row with bagged garden soil. This was before reading anything about vegebale gardening and finding this site. Everyone appears to be planting above ground gardens. Will my in ground garden work as well? I am also thinking I should have gone deeper now. Should I dig the rows deeper or just dig the entire 8'x5' area so that all of the soil is loose? (I dug rows because of the slope, so I'm not sure how that would work) I don't mind going back and digging more, but I did plant onions in the bottom row, which are coming up nicely I might add. :) I definitely want to go organic (too bad I already put the garden soil in), so I want to make sure everthing is right moving forward.
Any help or advice that you have would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Angela