Planning and Getting Ready for Garden 2017 by Ed Powers
I live between Conifer and Evergreen at 7600 feet. I have lived here for more than 5 years with gardening challenges galore. Last year I built 2- 4 feet by 4 feet raised gardens. Quite frankly, even at that size I had the best garden I have had up here. I also grew some tomatoes indoor over the winter that produced the largest best fruit I have ever had gardening. So moving forward this year, I decided to start my tomatoes, squash and peppers along with several flowers in December/ January in 2017. I will also start a second crop in February. My hope is that they will survive to be larger plants in June. My belief and experience from last year is that this l will produce a better garden. I also intend on building another raised garden 8x3 feet. I have started the process by planting seeds I saved from last year since they are all heirlooms. This will include Russian Black Crim tomatoes (this is the 3 rd seaso...