I'm doing some major work in the yard this week, so posting will continue to be a little light through the weekend. I'm putting in a new garden (among other things) and I want to have it complete in time for the spring planting season (January-March) here in Florida. I haven't nailed down all the plants I'll be growing (I'm anxiously awaiting my Seed Savers catalog!) but I do hope to include an experimental patch of wheat. I'll let you know how it goes!
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Bamboo
I have a list of around 40 edible things I ultimately want to grow, but with the limited size of my garden bed I'll be lucky if I can grow 4 this year. I'm going to sneak in a couple stalks of bamboo because it has such a small footprint. I'm not clear as to how bamboo would be useful in peak oil/post oil world, but it has so many uses: rope, furniture, interior wall framing, plumbing, flooring, scaffolding, the list goes on. Some species grow to full height in one growing season and become fully hardened in four growing seasons. And it's a perennial. It'll be interesting to see if I can grow any species up here in Wisconsin, especially with our extended, global warming growing season. If anyone has any tips on growing bamboo, I'm all ears. :)
Garden Size
PE, how much garden space do you think you'll have when you finished?
Hmmm...
Somewhere just under 400 ft^2 I think -- over 250 ft^2 plus the two smaller ones, but I haven't measured out the new one yet. Depending on how well I garden, I'm hoping to get about 1/4 of our food from them.