Vegetable Garden in Zone 5a - Dreams

1. Vegetable Gardening 101
2. First Steps of Vegetable Gardening
3. Best time to Start Spring Gardening in Nebraska

Starting to plan

Fall Planting -- Garlic and...

1. Garlic

Spring Planting

1. Basil from seeds

Late Planting:

Planting Calendar for Omaha, NE tells me I can plant these vegetables to harvest before frost (15 Oct 2023):

• Carrots -- start seeds before Aug 26
• Cucumbers -- start by July 12
• Fava Beans (grow two to six feet tall) -- Aug 16 Dogs can get sick by eating those.
• Green Beans (a childhood favorite that Glenn would grow) -- July 12
• Lettuce (Glenn grew lots of leaf lettuce) -- Sept 5
• Tomatoes -- Seedlings by July 2
• Zucchini & Summer Squash -- July 17

It's going to be a good summer!

Tools

1. Maybe buy a Darwin's Grip for my EGO cultivator and trimmer etc
2. Maybe a subscription to Garden Planner
3. Maybe some nice vertex lifetime tomato cages

Compost

1. NPR on How to Compost at Home
2. Compost Dos & Don'ts

YouTube videos that spark interest

1. New Vegetable Garden: How to Get Started talks about starting with a raised bed (and in the ground).
2. Companion Planting Made Simpile

Rough draft #1 - 15 feet by 15 feet

Based on what's available localy, I might change from this. Who knows, maybe I'll grow LOTS of tomatoes?

Omaha is zone 5b

https://biggarden.org/annual-planting-calendar

Irrigation Notes

Don gifted me some things from the Drip Depot and I'm excited to use them in the spring. I have some notes in my telegram garden channel.

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