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[gwennierocks]

Hello all! My name is Gwen and I live in Dallas, TX. I am going to plant my square foot garden tomorrow with the assistance of my wonderful man, Davy. I'm not sure which vegetables I'm going to plant; I'll just take a browse tomorrow at Whole Foods and see which seeds look good

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[mygirlsmom3]

Hi there Gwen, I'm Michelle and I'm new too. :) I just have a second, but I just wanted to say that I really have no idea how to water yet. I'm *brand* new at it too. But I think it depends on the soil?

I'll see if I can look something up later if I have a little time. I too, plan to post some pics in the next couple of days!

I'm excited about this community!

[mygirlsmom3]

I'm still up in the air on the watering thing. The Square Food Gardening book actually tells you how many cups to water a week (if I'm remembering correctly) per plant type depending on using his specific soil mixture.

Hopefully you'll get some more seasoned gardeners to answer this one.

[_the_redhead_]

When you first plant seeds or transplant seedlings, water daily.

After the plants have established roots(a week or two), water once a week.

When it's blazing hot(think Texas in July), water twice a week or more...at night it the best time.

Remember most plant can tolerate a little grought much better than flood.

[mygirlsmom3]

You know, I was amazed that it was so infrequent! I'd always thought it was a daily or even twice a day thing for the whole season. Funny what a little knowledge can do for ya. (grin)

[reptilegrrl]

You might be interested in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfg-texas/ . It's a yahoo list for people doing SFG in Texas :)