I am still living at the same place. After 5 years of trying to garden in pottery shards I have decided to truck in dirt. This spring my garden will have 46 cubic yards of good soil made into permanent beds. I am shooting for a garden that is 55x55 and using this book to help me get more organized. My issues with consistence are getting much better, I have seen great improvement over the last two years. Instead of trying to do it all, I do what I can and my motto is "Do what you don't want to do, then you can do what you want." My kitchen is cleaner because of it!
A note about the book I am using; it is written by two people who are in a zone 6 / 5 area so if you live in Florida, it is probably not the right book for you. I live in a zone 4 area, so I have to modify it a bit which is not a problem, but if I lived in a place with 200 or more frost free days I would go nuts trying to make this book work for me. That said, I really like it.
Today I finished sharpening, cleaning, and oiling my garden tools. It is too cold and windy to inspect the orchard so I will do that tomorrow. Yesterday I ordered all of my seeds from Johnny's and I plan on getting more plants when planting time comes. Here is my garden plan that I tweaked from another book.
My to youngest are also doing a bag garden from the book so I gave one the 1 year plan and the other the second year addition. This is a great idea for kids who do not want to spend too much time working on a garden because there is very little weeding and prep involved.
I really like this book and it is fun to use. I purchased both of them from Amazon after checking them out at the library.
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