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shadawyn

The Main Bed

garden of shadawyn

Seattle · 400 square feet

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Area

400 square feet

This is a dedicated, large raised bed my husband built in 2013, fenced off from animals that should be in use from late spring to fall.

The plants in the bed really struggled last year, and most failed to thrive. We've heard varying reasons this might be–too little of this, too much of that–a home soil tester proved inconclusive. So we've been adding egg shells, coffee/tea grounds, and the bedding from the chicken coop to it over the winter with plans for it to break down in the early spring.

We're also going to move around where the plants were and plant them a little later in the season–it doesn't get as much sun as we thought it would, and some of the areas next to the border get almost no sun at all.

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In the usual frost danger

The usual last frost is 22 Apr, in 165 days. It has come as late as 7 May.

The frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
Usual last frost
22 Apr
has come as late as 7 May
Next frost danger starts
30 Oct
as early as 16 Oct, 356 days from now
Frost-free season
190 days
in a typical year

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Previously planted in this garden

2014

celery celery
lettuce lettuce
spinach spinach
broccoli broccoli
brussels sprouts brussels sprouts
borage borage
broccoli broccoli
kale kale
fennel fennel
onion
mustard

About this garden

Owner shadawyn
Location
Seattle

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