However your garden grows, keep growing as a gardener
Usually I am itching to start my seeds in December and start planting things in early January, but this year I held off (partly due to some travel, partly due to improving self-restraint). But today was the day!
Continue reading “First seeds started!”
There are so many reasons to garden, it’s such a wholesome endeavor. It often reduces our carbon footprints, helps the ecosystem, improves our mental and physical health, and saves us money. I’ve been interested in gardening pretty well since I could walk. I especially loved my grandmother’s garden. When she was preparing supper she would give me a bowl and some snips and ask me to go harvest yellow beans, and I remember thinking yellow beans from her garden were my favourite vegetable.
Continue reading “Why I Garden”
Far from it! It was not very long ago at ALL that I was clueless about even the most basic gardening concepts. One year, my aunt told me that tomatoes will have a bigger root system and grow better if you bury the stem when you transplant… so I buried the whole stem, ALL of it, and was surprised when they didn’t pop out of the soil a few weeks later like blades of grass!
Continue reading “I am not an expert”
Gardening is a learning process, and the learning is never done. One of the best ways to make the lessons stick, and to build your knowledge, is by writing down what happens every year in the garden. What did you plant, when, where, how did it do?