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Easy Vegetable Gardening



Think growing vegetables is hard work? Pam & Paul built an easy vegetable garden with raised beds on their farm in upstate South Carolina. Pam shows you how we built and planted our vegetables plus gives you some tips on growing organic vegetables without a lot of time and fuss.

Pam Stone, Sharon Decker and Ramona Holloway host the radio program “The Satisfied Life” out of Charlottle, NC. www.thesatisfiedlifenetwork.com. Paul Zimmerman is Pam’s other half and owns Ashdown Roses. www.ashdownroses.com.

29 Comments

  1. w2dmw

    Careful, Pammy, those pressure treated 2 x's are usually treated with arsenic,which can leach out, and be absorbed by your plants. Has your hair been falling out, or feeling listless lately ?? Check it out for yourself.Better to use cedar..

  3. Thryn1

    black locust is another wood with properties like cedar

    but SuperChessnuts, what about heat-treated wood, HT?

  4. Eddie Bosch

    How much sun do vegetable plants require? The spot that I have chosen gets the late morning sun like around 10:30. Is that ok?

  6. iminidaho2004

    Depends on the plant, check Google on the plants you want to plant. Some plants grow in late sun, but never truly thrive. Some won't flower or produce fruit, some will. Try growing a little of everything you want, its your garden. Micro climates make a differance too. Shelter, shade, temp, wind, water, etc..

  14. Fraser Dunn

    I remember a Better Boy plant produced 342 pounds of tomatoes. The cultivar was a trend in the 1960's. Just as Better Boy "replaced" Best Boy there seemingly is now "Big Beef" and "Steak Sandwich" and perhaps others as new trend setters.

    I have a couple of "Steak Sandwich" currently growing the tallest. I also bought and in growing order of height of the remaining seedlings from Burpee are: "Power Pops", "Fourth Of July", "Sweet Tangerine","Sungold", "Cherries Jubilee".

  15. Fraser Dunn

    Ispolin was sold out. But I think I bought Ispolin under a different name. Ispolin grows like small trees!

    I'm excited with the tomato seeds I bought this year! The ones I already mentioned from Burpee! But also the four cultivar wild tomatoes. "Cuatomate", "Wild Cherry"(From Salt Spring Seeds)(This is different from "Matt's Wild Cherry" which I purchased else where) and "Coyote".

    "Coyote" seeds haven't sprouted yet I guess. Sometimes tomato seeds take
    16 days to germinate.

  16. Fraser Dunn

    And finally I would like to mention why I bought those four wild tomato cultivars "Cuatomate", "Wild Cherry"(not like Matt's from Salt Spring Seeds), "Matt's Wild Cherry" and "Coyote".

    A person can plant them without poles, can repopulate as "volunteers", possibly no maintance and I suppose they can grow in the total shade if part of the plant get moderate sun. A person said, "Even in the Dominican Republic Matt's Wild Cherry grows without watering".

    Bare ground planting from seed!

  17. C Anderson

    Good to know! Thanks. Had heard they changed the formulation a bit in recent years, mayybe for human safety, but never looked into it.

  19. Fraser Dunn

    Thank You! Maybe I'll manage a tomato farm next year!

    I have the Salt Spring Island Seeds' "Wild Cherry" growing but the soil is seemingly too hard. I have put Burpee's "Cherry Jubilee" into an upside-down planter.

  24. Jaclyn Brown

    a great natural to combat bugs like afids is ti release lady bugs into your garden, they eat the afids but not the plants

  25. jankanu1

    luv…luv the shower… been day dreaming of making one. Thanks for the raised beds  idea.

  27. Victoria Kerr

    You said you used pressure treated lumber. Please do research, it is toxic and has to be at a minimum of 25 feet from food crops.

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