Sunday, May 10, 2009

Garden for the "New Owners"

lynn and i are moving to the Trinity Alps, N Cali, to set up the "Blueberry Peace Farm, Retreat Center and Wildlife Refuge #2", We are, God/Dess, Jah willing, going to be selling the Property here in Mississippi for a "considerable price", after 4 years of WORK and LOVE put into it, We are planting the Garden before listing it on MLS in a couple weeks.

We are planting Sweet Corn, 2 kinds of Cantalope Melons, Honey Dew Melons, Purple Hull Peas, Peppers, a few Pumpkin Plants, 3 Varieties of Cucumbers, Eggplant, Sugar Baby Water Melons and about 5 Kinds of Tomatoes.

Here is Our Garden Design (WE have been building up the Soil over the last 4 years):
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Dimensions Equilateral Garden Beds Design
Dimensions:
Equilateral Triangle Garden Beds Design
72 feet 9 inches: sides of eqilateral triangle
63 feet: triangle point to midpoint of the opposte side
point to triangle center: 42 feet
midpoint of triangle side to triangle center: 21 feet
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Equalateral Garden Bed Trig:
Refering to Picture: Lengths of Sides "a, b and c" are all 72 feet and 9 inches. Length "r" is 21 feet (radius of "small circle"). Radius of Larger Circle is 42 feet. By picture; bisecting and perpendicular from side "b" to point "B" is 63 feet (also point "A" to side "a" and point "C" to side c)
Equilateral Triangle Vegetable Garden Bed Layout. Twelve "Raised Beds" total. There are 6 "outer" Beds, 3 "middle" Beds and 3 smaller "inner" Beds. "Raised Vegetable Beds" are 5 feet wide and paths in between are 2 feet.
The total area of "Raised Vegetable Garden Beds" will be about 1.200 square feet.
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12 Vegetable "Raised Beds" Design:
Here is drawing of the Vegetable Garden Design (Eqilateral Triangle).
The Garden Beds are numbereed 1 to 12. (this will help w/ record keeping)
Each bed will be 5 feet wide and the "paths" in between are 2 feet wide.
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Garden Bed with Compost spread out before planting.
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Planted and Growing Garden Beds!!!

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