It’s hard to believe that I’ve worked at Altum’s for 18 years and still feel a little intimidated by vegetable gardening. I’ve decided to take a journey this year and build a raised garden bed
Assembling My Square Foot Garden Bed Now it’s time to put together our 4 2x12s. Put your garden box together on a flat surface like your driveway or garage floor so you don’t twist or
Today, I’m ready to place my garden box in my landscape. I’m putting down chicken wire before I place the box. This is an optional step, I think I may have some critters tunneling in
In my last post I said I was going to decide what to plant, but thought I should go over the soil mixture I used. In my first post I listed the shopping list and
Time to plant! Before I planted my first crop, I added Root Rally from Age Old Organics to my raised bed. Here’s the fancy scientific explanation of the benefits: A complete blend of Endo-and Ecto-mycorrhizae
I’ve been hesitant to post anything as my seeds didn’t seem to be doing anything! I planted just before all rain came in and I was afraid they all washed away or the birds had
It’s been awhile since my last post. The weather didn’t cooperate with gardening and I couldn’t plant warm weather crops early. I planted tomatoes, cucumbers, pole beans and some herbs.
Plan and avoid pitfalls as you plant your way to veggies This article is a compilation of Altum’s gardener, Karen Thacker’s personal journey to build her first raised garden bed and begin her very first