This fall I’m switching it up and adding a new “How-To” grow section under my “Gardening Guide for Easy Vegetables.” It will outline instructions on how to grow beautiful, healthy organic vegetables. Over the next few weeks, more pages will appear, each outlining directions from seed to sprout, problems to watch out for, good companions, bad companions and specialty tips, as in the case of tomatoes.
It’s my way of organizing information in an easy to find navigation of my site. Since every plant is unique and beautiful and requires different care, I’ve listed some basics.
General tips of the trade:
Plant depth will reflect seed size. The smaller the seed, the more shallow planting depth.
Heirloom seeds are preferred over hybrid, because we practice self-sustaining gardening and seeds harvested from hybrids won’t reproduce the fruit they were harvested from. Instead, you’ll get a surprise veggie!
Keep in mind that plants like soft, fluffy beds. If your soil is too dense or too loose, like Goldilocks, your plants will complain. Homegrown compost fits the bill best!
Mulch keeps the moisture in and natural hay or pine straw works perfect, though pine should be reserved for your more acid-loving plants like potatoes, peanuts, strawberries and blueberries.
Companion planting helps keep your plants healthy and happy. Two plants that work well with everyone are lettuce and okra.
Fish emulsion is a great all-around organic fertilizer. Gives mild dose of nitrogen and stinky enough to keep the bugs at bay.
Now, I’m getting ready for fall gardening–care to join me?
Too funny reading this post, I have been going thguorh the same thing recently but chalked it up to the spring cleaning bug. One of my goals this year is to simplify so I have been going thguorh all of the stuff we have and slowly but surely thinning it out and donating/recycling/reusing everything. I find it less overwhelming to look at each thing individually instead of it all together lists are the most rewarding because you can check things off one at a time and you can see what you have accomplished. Hang in there, it happens to everyone, it just means you have a lot of great things in your life