Garden Happenings - April 23

I got nothin'. The weather and timing has not been in my favor. It seems that on the days I have time it is raining and on the days it is decent weather after work I have other things to do. PE did finish getting all the boxes repaired. He also repaired our compost barrel. Hopefully after we return from our vacation things will settle down and I will be able to get something done in the garden.

Garden Happenings - April 9

It is snowing. It has been snowing for three days. It has been crap weather about a week. Snow and crap weather hinders the gardening process. The couple days it has been nice did not coincide with planting. PE did get the big garden bed ready so now I am just waiting on the weather. As soon as everything aligns and I actually get some gardening done, I will let you know.

Have a great weekend!

Garden Happenings - March 26

Well. . . the weather has not been cooperating with any garden happenings. I would have been able to plant peas and lettuce this week; however, the weather has not provided for a good weekend in order for PE to help get the garden beds ready. (He does that and I plant everything; I find that fair.)

The lack of prepping and planting sort of puts a kink into the whole Garden Happenings post. I hope to have a better post next time.

Garden Happenings - March 12

Starting this week and going until mid to late summer I will post biweekly about our garden. Last year I sort of mentioned our garden and I even took a couple photos but that is where it ended as far as the blog was concerned. I contemplated not having a garden this year but then there was all the talk of the increase of vegetable prices, so I figured it would be for the best if I gave it a go.

I know what you are thinking. . . .it is MARCH!!! What do you mean your garden?! Well. . . now (actually February in some instances) is when you should start thinking about your garden. It is the time for starting some seeds indoors and planning the layout.

Last year that is exactly what I was doing. This year, I am not so sure. The whole seed starting thing didn't end so well for me. They all started beautifully but then it went south about four weeks in. Four weeks in is about three weeks from being finished so that was a little discouraging. Luckily a local greenhouse had great prices on plants I could transplant into my garden. Those plants did great. (My sister always starts many plants from seed and they all work out just fine so use her as an inspiration if you need one. I can give you more to go on for that inspiration if needed.)

If you went and looked at the My Square Foot Garden website

when I posted about it last year you could have been receiving the helpful emails like I have. I would have not had a thought one way or the other about my garden yet, but that first email got my mind a workin'. I have started my garden plan and have been thinking back to what grew and what didn't.

I most assuredly will NOT be growing any squash. This makes me sad as we love squash. But I have had my fill of those damn squash bugs. They are SO disgusting. Fist off they are hideous looking but to make matters worse, when they feel threatened they emit a stench too. It was too much for me last year. I did my best for awhile and would try to brush the eggs off but then they would squish and it would gross me out so I started ripping that part of the leaf off (real healthy for the leaf/plant....not so much). And killing the adults was a whole other matter. Ick. So, I will not be growing anything they like in the hopes that next year maybe I can grow some squash without having them along for the ride. In case you forgot how hideous they are. . .

I have been using square foot gardening for several years and I love it. I highly recommend you give it a try if you are interested in having a garden. Good luck and let me know if you have any questions.