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Article: The believe-it-or-not one-day vegetable garden.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- March 1, 1987
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The believe-it-or-not one-day vegetable garden
How much time does it take to put in avegetable garden? With good planning, you can do it in a day, even if you start from scratch on a weedy lot. The proof is on these four pages.
We followed an experienced gardener inBurlingame, California, through the steps as he turned a weedy back lot into a productive vegetable garden in about 8 hours. Then we made return visits over the growing season to see how the crops progressed. The results provide a good step-by-step lesson in basic vegetable gardening.
This 25-foot-square plot started as aweed-choked patch of ground. More as a challenge than out of ...