Spring is my favorite time of year and this year I promised myself I'd try grow bigger and better veggies than the previous year (like I do every year :). So I'm really trying to go all organic this year without giving in to the pressures of the mighty garden pests that make me go ballistic like the slugs, horn worms and ugly little black and orange beetles I have yet to figure what they are.
So I spent all weekend pulling the dreadful weeds my husband warned me to stay on top of during the winter (which I didn't). Who likes to pull weeds in the muddy garden? The remains of my half hearted attempt at a winter garden actually thrived through the cold in between all the weeds. My collard and mustard greens are tender and juicy and my onions are rounding out nicely. The sugar peas and daikon didn't fair so well. I had 3 ft stalks on the daikon with skinny little 1 inch roots..what the heck is that all about? And the poor peas were so tangled up in the weeds I finally gave up and yanked them out and tossed them in the bin with the rest of the weeds.
But springtime is a time for me to turn over a new leaf (literally). Deciding what to plant is easy, trying not to plant enough food to feed a small army is much more difficult especially since it's just my husband and I.
Stay tuned for the veggie selections and the journey to organic gardening. Is bood meal and bone meal really bad?
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