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Barrys Bay
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2011 09:20
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Hi all,
This will be my first year to start a garden up at the cabin. Zone 3b-4a, Ontario. We are in Renfrew county, north of Bancroft.
What do you grow? How do you start? I've dabbled with gardening in the city, including heirloom tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets that turned out pretty well. But I was there every day to tend to them.
I need low manintenance, sun-loving veggies, and flowers that have worked well for you. I'll be up maybe for a whole month during July so I can tend to the garden well dring that time. I have sandy soil at the front of my lot, and also forest soil towards the back (rich with composted leaves). Will I still have to add anything to this forest soil to make things grow? What do you folks recommend?
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Just
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2011 10:19
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my advice is keep it small I made my first cabin garden the big and much of the produce went to waste !!
I now plant __
onions lettus tomatoes peppers peas green and yellow beans and some hearbs
As far as flowers go i like sunflowers they seem to greet me when we come in the lane.
as for your soil It never hurts to add a little 7.7. 7 fertilizer
garden should be in full sun, high and dry soil.
"just" a farm boy from southwestern ont.
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Barrys Bay
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2011 12:12
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How do you keep the deer and rabbits away? I'm thinking 4x4's with chicken wire.
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Just
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# Posted: 7 Apr 2011 16:16
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3 ft chicken wire worked for both . we dident think of that till the second planting way the think ahead!!!we used 1,,50 ft roll for the whole garden .we also had fruit trees and berry bushes and rubarb!!
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