Spring isn’t over yet! You still have time to plant!
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| My first garden…have to start somewhere |
Last year I planted my first full on, real, that’s mine over there, vegetable garden. I honestly didn’t know what I was doing. But somehow the seeds grew and I ended up with pounds and pound of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, lettuce, okra and rhubarb. It sounds like I must have done something right, and I did. I put some seeds in the ground and let them grow.
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| Foes in the garden |
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| Friends of the garden |
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| Way more cucumbers than a person deal with! |
Having a garden in your backyard is like a key to the organic world, and you don’t have to pay as much for the good stuff! I was giving squash and tomatoes away because I had so much and we couldn’t eat it all.
During the summer all I did was to pull a few weeds and make sure it got watered during times of possible drought. I didn’t fertilize or mulch or spray anything. I guess I could have, but it didn’t occur to me and I don’t want chemicals anywhere near my garden or children.
During the summer all I did was to pull a few weeds and make sure it got watered during times of possible drought. I didn’t fertilize or mulch or spray anything. I guess I could have, but it didn’t occur to me and I don’t want chemicals anywhere near my garden or children.
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| A helper in the garden is always welcome |
This year I have expanded my growing area. I have about 10 tomato plants in a new spot. I literally tossed butternut squash seeds (that I saved from the ones I grew) all around the edges of the garden. I planted three different kinds of lettuce. There’s a new spot with bell peppers that doesn’t seem to be doing well, but at least I tried it. The one lone strawberry plant I put in last year has sent out baby plants and now there are about six plants and I ate my first berry of the season today…it was incredible and tasted like summer is coming!
If you have a patio or window box you can plant herbs in a pot and enjoy a fresh basil sandwich all summer. You might have a tiny backyard that you could put some 4×4 raised bed in and grow your own lettuce. Lettuce is the easiest thing to grow. Carrots, not so much. Radishes – easy. Onions – easy. Cabbage – not so easy. I’m a newbie at vegetable gardening but I’m loving every minute of it. Even the hoeing and the weeding. Every time I pick a salad I am inspired to keep going and next year maybe expand again.
I threw some old rotten squash in my compost heap (nothing fancy, just a heap) and guess what? It grew into the best squash ever! Apparently squash are big “feeders”, they like a lot of nutrients in their soil…who’d have thought?
I threw some old rotten squash in my compost heap (nothing fancy, just a heap) and guess what? It grew into the best squash ever! Apparently squash are big “feeders”, they like a lot of nutrients in their soil…who’d have thought?
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| First pick of the season |
Try a few lettuce seeds, a cherry tomato in a pot…just try. See what a few seeds can do for you. You don’t have to be a master gardener, I promise. I hope my short story of discovery in the garden will inspire you to grow something this spring.
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Diana
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Katie says
have a great day!!!
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Kat from California says
I think it's funny that your squash grew in the compost heap. We have a heap too, but our squirrels get stuff before it could root. If I was going to grow vegis I'd have to create a cage for it.
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