growing guide Making the Most of Your Raised Bed Garden Contents Part 1: Gardening with Growing Places Part 2: Plant & Pest Guide 1 Raised Bed Gardens 5 Vegetables What Makes It A Raised Bed? 6 Herbs & Flowers Benefits Things to Keep in Mind 7 Pests 2 Square Foot Gardening Appendices How is Square Foot Gardening A Glossary Different? Spacing B Garden Planning Planning Companion Planting C Plant Compatibility Chart Succession Planting D Plant Family Chart Planting Seeds E Planting Schedule Starting Seeds Indoors Seedlings F Seasonal Checklist 3 Soil Care G Blank Garden plans Fertilizing H Garden Journal Testing I APPENDIX 4 Watering, Mulching & Weeding Acknowledgements The Three Stages of Watering How to Water A Note About Mulch Weeding Your Square Foot Garden We are pleased to provide you with a copy of our Growing Guide! We hope you are eager to get started with your vegetable garden. Inside this guide you will find some helpful information about planning, planting, watering, pest control and fertilizing. A thorough reading of this guide will undoubtedly enhance your gardening experience. This is a work in progress and as such is subject to change. If you have any suggestions to offer, we would be very happy to hear them. We want this to be as useful to you and other future gardeners as possible. Please call, email or write us at: Growing Places 325 Lindell Avenue Leominster, MA 01453 978.598.3723
[email protected] Who We Are At Growing Places, we believe in the power of gardening to improve lives. We help low-income individuals, families and communities realize the many health, economic and social benefits of growing their own produce by building food gardens and the skills to maintain them in low-income communities in North Central Massachusetts.