Gardening season is finally here!! I am soo excited!
This is my very first year growing a large garden.
I cannot wait to be able to share it with you.
This garden has already been such a learning experience.
I have had several plants die once planted, the remaining get eaten by a ground squirrel and a last frost well past the frost date.
What an adventure!
I was worried there for a while that my wonderful garden space would be an expensive plant grave yard.
Who knows it still may end up that way.
My biggest success this far has been potatoes!
Just when all seemed lost and I thought I may have a container garden forever (Last year I grew things in containers on my back porch), my little potatoes started to sprout.
I also had what I thought to be a dead mint plant on my porch for at least 6 months start sprouting again (I was going to use the planter for something else) .
With this renewed hope, I got 12 healthy plant starts, guess what???
The squirrel is back!!
I now have 2 tomato plants and 1 watermelon.
Hopefully they make it.
If anyone has tips please feel free and comment them below. At this point in time I am attempting to grow the following:
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Jack O Lantern Pumpkins
- Sugar Pie Pumpkins
- Strawberries
- Beef Steak Tomatoes
- Roman Tomatoes
- Green Beans
- Squash
- Zucchini
- Potatoes
- Cucumber
- Cantaloupe
- Spinach
- Carrots
- Lavender
I did plant several more seeds in containers on my porch in hopes to transplant them in the garden.
I guess if all else fails, I can become a potato farmer!
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