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Planning and fertilizer

plum tomatoes With the first month of autumn already away, my vegetable garden in running on its last few  plants, and this is a nice opportunity to look back at what I have gotten so far and how to improve yield for next year!  I bought my house in March 2011 and was already to late to full plant in my garden and still had to tidy up a bit. So last years harvest was not that great, I also had to guess what good positions were for each crop. So I drew up a short plan with sowing dates, fertilizer and positions.  For 2012 I sowed the following: - Brussel's sprouts - Carrot (orange/white/red/purple/yellow) - Beets (red/white/chioggia) - Radish (red/purple/yellow) - Lettuce (green/red) - Pumpkins (Uchiki kuri) - Potatoes - Broad beans - Purple snap beans - Pole slicing beans - Tomatoes (cherry/plum/cocktail) - Cucumber (long/mini) - Pepper (bell-red) broad and purple snap beans Next to the sown crops I also had the following perennials - Rhu...