Jubilee Farm

How to start planning the garden..

I will have to do some random blogging I think, to get an idea on how to set up my garden. I have all the space I want, but don't want to be to overcommited for my first time. So what do I plant, what do I put where, how do I organize it?  I have a few catalogs of seeds ordered, but not here yet. I am excited to work with things I can can or freeze, and maybe some herbs that I can learn to use simply. I know nothing about using herbs for medicine or cooking!  Boy do I have a whole new lifestyle to learn or what? We are never too old to learn something new. I am hoping and praying we will be out at our farm by mid feb. The well is holding up things a bit, but Farmer T is working on that. Farmer T is going to lay wood laminate, linoleum, set the appliances in (after I get them ordered), and get the sinks and toilet in. All this in addition to working full time, today he has been at work for 15 hours already!!!  He is a paper engineer.  How will he ever find time to be a paper engineer and a farmer?  Where there is a will there is a will I guess....

So where should I look for garden ideas, or worksheets to get me started??

We are getting tons of rain today and it is making me think spring :)

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{ 11:54, 2006-Jan-10 } { Posted by OurLittleHomestead }

I'd look around here at Homestead Blogger, them check out Storey's Basic Country Skills or (&) Carla Emrey's Encyclopedia of Country Living....you can always find something on the net too! :)

Happy Planning!
Lisa

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{ 08:14, 2006-Jan-11 } { Posted by sunnyflowers }

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/tog/planning.html

This site should give you a start.
What I did was make a list of the veggies that I knew my family would eat. Then every year I pick one or two new things to try. I mapped out my plan on graph paper, reading the seed packets for proper spacing, keeping in mind heights of plants so they wouldn't shade out others. With all those chickens, you are going to have a wonderful supply of manure! You might want to check around and see if you can find some well rotted manure to till in this year when you break the ground. Oh what fun you are going to have!!

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{ 11:47, 2006-Jan-13 } { Posted by stella }

just keep in mind that you don't have to plant everything all at once. even if your garden fails the first time, you can replant it. last year, i planted my garden 3 times. we had puppies that kept destroying it. in the end, i succeeded. granted, it wasn't what i had planned but i did glean a lot from the small plot.

just start with a few plants and keep adding. in a few years, you'll be growing all you want and more!

Hi!!

{ 06:50, 2006-Jan-18 } { Posted by mominpa }

So you started a homesteader blog too.. Great...I'll be back to check in, as I was reading, I thought...hmm this sounds familiar!! :)

mominpa