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Spring Garden Started

Apr 1, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

spring garden in raised garden beds

The garden is gradually growing this spring.  I am hopeful this year will be a better gardening year with the changes that have been made. I hadn’t planned on planting the tomatoes and tomatillos so early in the season, but they outgrew the containers I had them in.  It was either plant them or watch […]

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Seed Starting – Round 1

Mar 28, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

seed starting

At the beginning of February, I started quite a few seeds inside.  It has been quite the learning experience.  I went on the information Burpee’s website had for each plant since I ordered a lot of my seeds from them.  Next year, I’ll know what not to start in February because it gets too big […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: flowers, vegetable gardening

Replacing the Garden Soil

Mar 13, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

Mel's Mix: Square Foot Gardening

As I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to replace the top 8″ in both of my raised garden beds because of not-so-good veggie yields the past 2 years.  This is one task I was not looking forward to as I would have to remove the dirt one wheelbarrow at a time.  The whole […]

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Square Foot Gardening

Jan 27, 2016 By April Leave a Comment

square foot gardening

As you know, I built 2 huge raised garden beds for 2014.  That year’s garden did not do too well.  I had issues with diseased pecan tree leaves falling into the garden, issues with the zucchini plants, and a lot of other issues.  It was beyond frustrating to put all of that hard work into […]

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Fuschia Plant

Jul 9, 2015 By April Leave a Comment

fuschia flowers

At the beginning of May while looking around in the garden center of Lowe’s, I came across a plant I’d never seen before – and I go to the garden centers around here every year. This is the picture I snapped after planting it.  Sorry for the not-so-great quality.  That’s an iPhone for you. It […]

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: flowers

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