This time of year comes and I want to be out in the dirt as much as possible. I want to dig and plant and dig some more. However, with my recent change in work, I'm now working most weekends. This is the time my husband and I used to set aside in spring to get the garden going. This morning, I woke up late and had a lazy Sunday off from work. At about 1:30ish after fighting with the hub about a project, I went outside to clean the clover out of the garden from last year.
Last year, we built two square foot gardens the right way. We put down cardboard and then topped it with soil and peat and vermiculite just the way it said in the square foot gardening book. The year prior to last we kind of did the square foot thing, but in a more lackadaisical way. We failed two years ago, miserably, however last year I think we would have done better had we known how to garden. You see, no one tells you when to start picking. So we spent the majority of our time thinking our items needed time to grow and by the time we were picking them, they had already gone to seed. This year, we are wiser.
So today, hub says, "There's no way you are going to have time to plant today. That garden bed needs so much work, you are going to be out there cleaning it out forever!" He ate his words, for one hour later my garden was cleaned out and spring seeds were planted. Honestly, this was the easiest space to weed and plant. I don't know why more people aren't using this method!
Tomorrow, I plant some swiss chard and I begin to tend to my containers..... Let Garden Season START!
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