4 Foot Farm Blueprint by Sam McCoy

Author:Sam McCoy [McCoy, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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March 15th: plant edible pod peas (snap or snow peas, either one) in the tops of the 5 gallon buckets. Pea seeds are dried peas, and in order to give your peas a jump start, soak them in water (and inoculant if you have some as it will fix nitrogen to the soil and be available for the potatoes and later the tomatoes and peppers)

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Plant beets in the sweet Potato bed

Plant seed potatoes (not sweet potatoes) and mix in some peas. You might not get a lot of peas from here as you will be continually burying the potato plants to increase potato production, but even the small pea plants themselves are a delicious salad ingredient - the whole plant tastes like peas and has a nice sweetness to it when it is harvested while still less that 8 inches tall.

Plant kale, collards, chard, spinach and lettuce in the 2 liter and 8 oz. containers (put 3 seeds in each container to assure germination, thin to one plant once the first true leaves are established)

idea here is you sell/give/trade away all but the best 3 tomato plants and the best pepper plant.

April 1st: begin to thin kale, collards, chard spinach to one plant per container and lettuce to 2 or 3 plants per container. The thinnings will be your first greens harvest, make a salad and enjoy!

April 15th: thin the beets so that there is only one beet plant every 2 inches. Beet greens (and even the baby roots) are edible (they are a cousin to spinach) so make sure to eat them mixed together with whatever other greens you can harvest.

Indoors start some tomato and pepper plants as well as your sweet potato slips. Use the same soil mix you are using outdoors for these as well. Start as many plants as you have space for as both tomato and pepper plants and sweet potato slips have good monetary/barter value. The If your potato plants are growing, “hill” or bury most of the plant so that only the top few leaves are visible. As the potato plant grows, it will grow potatoes off of as much of the stalk that is buried under. You can hill your potatoes with dirt, leaves, grass, straw, shredded paper, etc. Really anything that covers the plant’s stem or stalk will encourage more potato production. It is a good idea to also mix in something that is nutrient-rich like compost or dirt mixed with a fertilizer. Compost tea is another option to “side-dress” or water in, as is fish emulsion.

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May 1st: Continue harvesting greens as they grow and keep in mind that you should pick greens from the outside of the plant only.

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