How much time will it take?
- How much time will it take?
- What tools will I need?
- When should I plant?
- What should I plant?
- How should I arrange my grow-boxes?
- What size should I make my grow-boxes?
- Where should I locate my garden?
The amount of time and work required to build and maintain your Mittleider garden varies according to the size of your project, the condition of the land to be cleared and prepared, and the way you obtain your seedling plants. If you grow your own seedling plants, additional work is involved. (On the other hand, you will save on the cost of buying the seedlings from a nursery.)
A typical grow-box garden consists of a 50' x 30' area, divided into 10 plots (grow-boxes) 18" wide x 30' long, with 3 1/2' wide aisles between boxes.
The following time estimates are based on a typical garden as described above. Because growing conditions vary broadly, these estimates are only approximate.
- To clear your gardening area, construct grow-boxes, and make aisles and footpaths, plan on 8 to 16 hours of labor
- To prepare the custom-soil, plant seeds, and transplant seedlings, plan on another 12 to 16 hours.
- To water, feed, and care for your plants after you have planted them, you should plan to spend 30 minutes per day (preferably in the early morning).
- To harvest your crop may require an additional 1 to 5 minutes per grow-box, depending on the type of vegetable and the amount to be harvested.
Learn More
- Home Seedling Production Grow-Bed Gardening (pp. 58-60)
- Building an Inexpensive Seedling Greenhouse Grow-Bed Gardening (pp. 61-74)
To anticipate your garden work and when it needs to be done, it is helpful to create a Gardening Cycle Calendar—a month-to-month to-do list that reminds you of crucial gardening tasks. Click on Dr. Mittleider’s Gardening Cycle Calendar to see an example.
Garden Genius
Click on Gardening Cycle Calendar and create your own month-by-month to-do list. You may wish to refer to your Planting Plan to note when you need to plant specific crops.
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Tip of the Day
It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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