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Mar. 16, 2009
How Does Your Garden Grow?
So far, so good! I have decided I am going to become a gardener. You might remember my attempts from last year. We did harvest before we moved, but I would not say it was a huge success. There were a number of reasons why it did not work well.
- I decided to garden and bought everything all in one afternoon. Not a good idea. Nothing was prepared. My Little man, seven at the time, had to dig up all the sod and tree roots. Even for him, that was a tall order!
- I bought out the store. Not only did I not have a plan, I did not have the space, either. I tried to fit 16 tomato plants, 9 pepper plants, 9 sweet potato plants and assorted squash, onion, melon and cucumber plants into the size of a queen size bed. Not good.
- The biggest mistake I made, truly, was not having a plan. Without a plan, you have no idea what you are doing. I do a lot of things "flying by the seat of my pants". I realize now that growing a successful garden is not one of those things!
With all that said, I have built a library of gardening books. I probably have twenty to thirty gardening books packed. Additionally, I have purchased about twenty books. I have read on everything from asparagus beds to water-saving watering techniques (I could not think of a gardening term for Z...oh...zucchini!). I have about 50 gardening and sustainable living websites bookmarked on my computer. I have a plan! Stay tuned! |
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Mar. 17, 2009 - History for a sage
A plan is good, keep notes on what does what, and have fun.
Love Dad