This document provides information on growing your own food, including site selection, soil testing, planting techniques, and watering. It discusses raised bed, container, and lasagna gardening. It recommends easy vegetables to grow such as lettuce, tomatoes, beans, peppers, cucumbers, beets/chard, and radishes. Easy fruits include strawberries, raspberries, and rhubarb. More challenging vegetables are zucchini, bell peppers, asparagus, blueberries, cole crops, eggplants, onions, peas, and potatoes. Sweet corn, hard squash, and pumpkins require more space.
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1. Grow Your Own Food WorkshopPart A: Getting Started1. Site Selection2. Soils: testing, working, and improving3. Planting: seeds, seedlings, perennial transplants4. Watering: when, how, how much5. Putting it all together with these gardening techniques:Raised beds
4. Tips for small spacesPart B: Choosing Wisely1. Easy vegetables (varieties and pest management): lettuce, tomatoes, beans, (not-bell) peppers, cucumbers, beets/chard, radishes, garlic, kale, leeks, herbs such as parsley, sage, basil, etc., tomatillos, 2. Easy fruits (varieties and pest management): strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb3. A little more challenging: zucchini/yellow squash, bell peppers, asparagus, blueberries, all the other cole crops, eggplants, onions, peas, potatoes, spinach.4. Maybe not worth the effort: sweet corn, hard squash, pumpkins (too much space needed). Carrots, parsnips (wrong soils here). Melons (need season extension).
