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Ready to start your garden?
Start planning before the snow melts
and you will be ready for the spring!
- What’s the big idea?
- Are you interested in flowers? Herbs? Veggies?
- Flowers - do you want annuals which you have to plant each year? or do you prefer perennials which blast you with color for a shorter period of time, but come back again the following year?
- Herbs - do you want cooking herbs? Fragrant? Both?
- Veggies - do you have little critters that would be interested in your garden as well? Do you need a fence?
- Location Location Location
- Does your chosen spot get 5-6 hours of sun each day? Just make notes at 9am 12pm 3pm and you can determine whether that spot is right.
- Grow near the water source - try to put your garden near your water source so it’s easy for you take care of your garden.
- Clear your way.....
- Stake out your garden with popsicle sticks or something of the like
- Turn over the ground within your stakes
- Add some topsoil and turn over some more
- Cultivate your land
- Add some compost to your newly staked garden and stir it up
- Can you dig it?
- Dig into your new garden about 10 inches down
- Mix in your layer of compost and topsoil
- Choose wisely
- Pick your veggies and flowers
- Ask the garden center what grows best in your area
- Think about the pests in your area - deer, rabbits, foot traffic
- Get dirty
- Plant your treasures according to the depth directions and then fill in the soil with your hands, that is the only way to get a nice secure planting
- With seeds, scatter according to directions and then topcoat with your hands, spreading evenly like a shaker would
- Water water everywhere
- Water every day, when the sun goes down preferably to avoid quick drying
- Plants will let you know with wilting that they are dry
- Cover me
- Mulch is never a bad idea!
- Veggies and annuals should be covered in a decomposing mulch
- Perennials can be covered in the bark chip type
- Live the dream
- Check your masterpiece often and make sure you keep up the good work!
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