Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Jim,

Yes, it does make sense... thank you! Last year, I was completely lost on this, thinking it was 5x A WEEK for cabbage *sigh* but now:

1. Do you plant all your veggies that require 5 feedings in one row (let's say you are doing cabbage, melons, beets, and beans, but you don't want 4 30' rows of any of those crops. You want to split the 30' row into 4 and use these 4 veggies... is that how you would do it or by which grows taller and which does not (like corn and lettuce together)? I'm not doing my rows all with one crop like say potatoes... don't need that much, but I do need to know what I should plant with it by either considering height / shade problems or number of times I fertilize problems. What do you suggest?

2. I forgot WHEN to start using the nutrients. Let's say it is cabbage and needs 5 applications. Cabbage is waht, about 16 weeks from seed to harvest. When do you do the 5 applications?

Thank you Jim! ... or anyone who has answers.

Tamara

Tamara & Group:

You can split a long row into different plants, but do not inter-crop, because both plants suffer by competing for the same water, food and light, and it makes weeding much harder.

Also, plant those varieties that are close to the same size close together, so the tall plants do not shade short ones. Remember the rule that tall plants need to go to the North - or at least to the East - of shorter plants.

Feeding is not a problem when you remember that you just feed 1/2 ounce per running foot. Therefore, if you have two rows of bush beans that take up only 8' of your 30' row (if you're growing pole beans you plant only 1 row in an 18" bed), you place 4 ounces (1/2 cup) of Weekly Feed down the center of the bed evenly distributed over the 8'.

When you begin feeding and when you stop is also simple. While the plants are being raised as seedlings they get the Constant Feed water every day.

Immediately after transplanting into the garden you feed all plants 1/4 ounce of nitrogen per running foot. Then, after 3 days you begin feeding the WF mix.

You stop feeding 3 weeks before maturity for single-crop varieties, and 8 weeks before first frost for ever-bearing varieties.

I recommend everyone learn these simple rules.

Jim Kennard

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