instant garden
This was from last year… always learn from year to year, we go back to last year to evaluate and plan. start with a good fenced garden spot remove horse find a good guy with a Ford tractor (aka hubby) go to co-op and buy plants because you have been too busy planning a wedding [...]
planting
The best day to plant your garden, is a warm sunny day with rain forcasted for the next day. Be sure to pre-soak your seeds, or wet your sprouted seeds or your transplanted seedling. They should go into a nice warm damp home. And they should be mist watered soon. And you should have all [...]
sprouting part 2
After our seeds have soaked for awhile, drain the water. Our homemade draining lid should make things real easy. Pour out the water, and refill and pour out again. This is rinsing. After your seeds are well rinsed, pour out as much water as you can get out, then place your jar in a dark [...]
what to plant?
When choosing the best things to plant it does you well to talk to local folks. If they sell it at your local co-op it is because it grows in your area. Now that doesn’t mean nothing else will, but I wouldn’t invest in a pound of seeds for something exotic. In these days though [...]
what to do about weeds
If there is anything we usually have an abundance of it is weeds. But we have found a good solution, carpet. Yes carpet, old used carpet. We cut it in strips as long and as wide as the space between our rows. It keeps moisture, mud off your shoes, and does not let the weeds [...]
putting in rows
We put careful planning in our rows. Our area is on a slight slope and the rows are deigned to go down hill. We do that for a reason. We shouldn’t have to water a garden around here but with the last couple years being a drought we have learned to improvise. Another reason we [...]
a time to plant
When we first started our garden spot is was really bad soil. But it was a good spot. I figured it was easier to improve the soil than to move the sun or the hill so that is what we have been working n for 4 years. It is now really good. But we still [...]
