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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Garden Tour #1




Today I'm going to take you on the first tour of the garden. As you can tell from the pictures, I'm growing a lot of plants in containers. The number one reason that I am doing this is because its a lot easier than tilling. Now I didn't say cheaper. But, there are still costs either way. I will reuse this soil next year and I will show you how. I will admit, I tried container gardening last year and I didn't do good at all. I did aa lot of research over the winter and I feel that I will be far more successful this year. So far I have tomatoes, peppers, and squash in containers. Yes, the grow bags count as containers. To each container I have added one tablespoon of an insoluble fertilizer. Its something like 12-10-10. So if you use 5-5-5 go to two tablespoons. Then every other week, use a soluble fertilizer organic or not. I would go with a quarter strength fertilizer at first. You don't want to burn your plant. So far I have bought all of these plants at work. That doesn't mean that I won't grow some of my own. These plants just gave me a head start. I just noticed that I didn't include pictures from my earth garden. I will make a separate post on it. Don't let having no space stand in your way of gardening. This season I do plan  on doing videos. First off, I don't have nerves of steel. So I need to get over that.

I hope that you will follow me through this gardening season.


Friday, June 26, 2015

Back At It

I got a head start and planted many of my tomato plants in April. I had surgery twice in May and that put me behind. Now I am back on track. I've got corn, okra, cucumbers, watermelons, and squash all in the ground now. I'm not going big on the planting. Just sticking to the basics. We did manage to harvest a few small potatoes today. I am gambling by planting pepper seeds in the ground along with a few tomato seeds and see what they do. You should not be afraid to try new things in the garden.