Now that the growing season is almost over and I have documented some of what I have learned this year (Check out my Cucumbers and Tomatoes), it is time to start doing research for next year.

Plans:

1. Winter: Get the Compost going so I can use it in the spring.
2. Winter: Create some homemade trelluses from branches I cut when trimming trees.
3. Winter: Find / Buy a couple 2×6s to hold soil in the new Garden I have planned for the Spring.
4. Early Spring: Start the Seeds in the mini contianers I have from last years’ flower purchase.
5. Early Spring: Buy some Garden Soil for the Garden Box.
6. Early Spring: Break up a 10 foot x 10 foot section in the hill in the backyard for garden.
7. Early Spring: Install the 2×6s to hold in the soil.
8. Early Spring: Mix in the Soil and Compost Started in the Winter.
9. Early Spring: Plant the seedlings after the first frost.
10. Spring and Summer: Document the Growth of my Garden

What I want to plant in the Garden of 2008

• Big Boy Tomatoes (seeds stolen from a friend at work)
• Roma Tomatoes (seeds from 2007 crop)
• Cucumbers (seeds from 2007 crop)
• Squash (will have to buy the seed)
• Sunflowers (will have to buy the seed)
• Strawberries (will have to buy the seed)
• maybe some sweet peas (will have to buy the seed)
• Blackberries (seed from the wild blackberries in the backyard)
• Avocado Tree (Pits from fruit from store when they are cheap again)

I don’t know if I will be able to grow all of these plants in next year’s garden. Money has been tight and I don’t see it letting up any time soon. I am going to get stuff as I have the money and the time. Hopefully things will work themselves out by next spring.

If you would like to join me in a home garden endeavor, make a comment on this post. If you have your own blog, please post a trackback link. If I can get several websites together for next Spring, it might be fun to see each other’s garden as it grows. Let me know if you are interested.

Here are some Tomato Growing websites that I found interesting. They may just come in handy for next spring.

• Tomato growing in buckets – Burpee Big Girls
• The Great Tomato Weigh-In
• How To Make An Upside Down Tomato Planter
• upside down tomato plant

These are some other great vegetable gardening blogs that I have found in my search for ideas for next year.

• Carlton Garden
• I Wet My Plants
• Garden Desk

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