Planning for the Summer Vegetable Garden

March 14th, 2010 by admin

My wife thinks I’m crazy. I spend three quarters of the year gardening and the other quarter planning the next years garden, and seem to enjoy the planning as much as the doing. I way all of my produce from the vegetable garden, then work out how much per square foot I am getting from each crop. I treat it like a business and a competition all in one. In a way it is business, as the crops are all things we eat, so we are saving that amount of money we would spend in the supermarket.

I am competitive by nature, and love to do better and better each year. This year I have a new electric garden cultivator to help me; but of course, that has a cost. My aim is to increase the value of the crops this years by the $350 I spent on the tiller cultivator. Now that is a tough target, but it is possible. I do have a very large vegetable garden, and maybe I could even produce some extra to sell.

The garden cultivator I got is wonderful; I was never convinced to get one before, but when I picked it up in the store to look at it, it was so lightweight I was amazed. Plus, it has so many uses and different attachments that it really is a multi purpose tool. I will use it for cultivating and tilling in the spring, and then as a row cultivator later in the season.

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