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12 May ’12 - 11:26 pm
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Nice! Those beds are going to look great once they are all full. A pretty good resource I found is the SFG Foundation's youtube channel. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.c.....Foundation

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Nice! Those beds are going to look great once they are all full. A pretty good resource I found is the SFG Foundation's youtube channel. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.c.....Foundation

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Just thin a few out that look a bit weaker than the others and you should be ok.

When I plant I usually drop like two seeds into the hole and pick one out later, the weakest one. Works just fine. I have planted single seeds in the past and they were "duds" so I started doing two. Now that Im doing an SFG, I have kept doing that and it seems to work just fine.

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i am experimenting with one seed method in some squares

i made strips of newspaper

spaced out elmers glue dots

use a pencil tip (dipped in small dish of water) to pick a single lettuce/carrot/onion/beet seed

laid out strips on square

covered with a little dirt

I got this idea from gardenweb and wanted to see how it worked (1 seed, perfectly spaced, no thinning)

Will update

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Cool man. I like this stuff you are trying out!

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awesome, I'm thinking of something along the same lines, cute kid to!

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Thanks for all comments, any advice on pests (coons, skunks, possums)?

New item for suggestion. Im zone 6b, but my backyard faces south and there is no shade at all. I get a lot of sun in backyard, from like 6 am to 7pm already

any advice about crops or interesting things i should try.

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Also, I do have some semi dwarf fruit trees i planted last year. I will post pics of those later and ask for some suggestions. Peach tree has a ton of fruit on it right now (small of course), dont know if i should cut it off because it will get too large for branches to handle

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