Growing Food
I know some of you out there are saying I have a black thumb. Or my association won’t let me have a garden. Well, did you know that there are several varieties of plants that you can grow in pots or even hide in among you perennials. Now is the time to see what you are able to do. I consider myself to be the half-a$$ed gardener. So I am not the best one for advice. But there are a ton of books on the subject and you could always contact your local extension office.
I have had a garden for the last 3 years. We will be revamping it this coming year. (If only I had more land). The area that I use to garden is on the south side of the house. It is in full sun all day and had no air circulation. With that being said I still get a great many things out of the garden. One of them being experience. The first year I did as the book said and had 16 tomato plants in each of the boxes. Then went down to 12. This year I did 9 per box and they were doing so good. ( See experience) I think I would have gotten at least 2 bushels. ( Had some problems with critters this year ). I have a dwarf 5 in 1 apple tree in the ground and a dwarf 4 in 1 pear in a pot. I now have 5 blueberry bushes growing in tires and two grape vines. Plus I have a bunch of mints, chives and sage all in pots. I also have Echinacea and lavender in the ground. I had raspberry’s but I dug them all up and put them at my mom’s house. I am also looking into hazelnuts or a walnut tree.
My best piece of advice here is to try, try and try again. Just because it doesn’t work this year doesn’t mean it won’t work the next. See what grows well in your neck of the woods and give it a try!
Need to Do or Get
- Get more Heirloom seeds
- Look into a nut tree / shrub
- Get lumber to re-do garden
- Try and find a 4 in 1 cherry tree
- Look into window farming for winter greens
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