I remember when I was little, mom was ALWAYS in the garden! We didn’t have a big graden growing up, it sure wasn’t real small either tho. However it was sure a yummy one!
Mom always had garden goodies in the freezer for winter, and my friend and I always got into trouble for eating all her peas. I remember always telling her that there was lots for her freezer. Then she would get me to shell them, but not eat them because I had my “share” and the rest was for in her freezer. HAHA
Well fast foward life by A LOT and here I am, telling my kids they have to leave the peas alone, so we have enough for the freezer to get us through the winter haha!
Do you grow a garden?
What are you growing this year?
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Let me tell you a little bit about myself and why I am doing a big garden! With being a stay at home mom, married for 12 years, we have 4 very active hungry children. I started a garden years ago, when the husband and I first start living together. I will also tell you know that my first couple gardens sure didn’t look like gardens.
How did mom make that garden look so nice?
This year was a very different year for everyone, this year would mark my lets say… 10th year of gardening. Like a garden that looks like a garden.
I had like all the other years prestarted all well most of my plants, however this year was harder as my toddler decided to EAT all my prestarted plants, while they were on the porch before the garden was ready.
So I went on a search to get more from local greenhouses and a couple city stores, I got most of my stuff in the garden.
Have you read the first garden blog, about starting the garden?
I’ll leave a link below to go have a read! Growing A Garden!
So, how are the plants doing during covid-19 in 2020?
This year the garden was much different, I don’t have a well worked and years of love garden spot.
I recently started a big adventure, and with how that adventure had been layed out, I know have a brand new garden to relove and revamp!
My garden this year I call it a “dump and go” garden! This is becuase that is actually really accurate for how the garden went in.
This year the area got cleaned, and rotatilled, with it being a new garden and a grassy new area, I had ideally wanted to go against what I normally would do and I sprayed it down, let it sit then watered it like crazy before I planted it.
However that is of coarse not the same course as 2020 had in mind. The garden just got worked, let sit for about a week, then BAM, I started planting. This is why the garden is refurred to my “dump and go” garden.
With the garden getting in what I found to be a little later this then I normally would but… really whats “NORMAL” this year. HAHA I wasn’t really sure on how well it would do.
I knew the weeds and quack grass would do great, lol, but I was hopping the veggies would do good to, as I try to fill my freezer as much as I can for the winter. I always say my kids would be a little hungrier in the winter without the garden goodies.
With the year now coming to the gardening end… I must say I am very happy with how my dump garden made out. I also had some people tell me NOTHING would grow this year, and I should not waste my time. HAHA is all I say to those garden downers.
Don’t be discuraged the nice thing about gardens, is no matter what you will have stuff do better then others every year.
Nothing grows perfect every year. As long as you have dirt, water, seeds and some love, something should come up.
So what did I plant?
How is everything doing?
I always had a fairly big garden, however as we have been upgrading our lives, of coarse mama’s garden would get a little bigger then my old one!
As the years go on with this garden, it will get a little bigger but also with time a little tammer also!
This year in between the crazy quack grass my veggies are growning. I will also state that as far as weeding goes, I made sure to keep it as well weeded and rotatilled as I could, to ensure that the seeds had enough love to start and survive. These last could weeks I have not been weeding, as is it time to be out there picking the goodies. Who wants to go and pick weeds and still pick the produce!
With the garden year coming to an end in the next month or so, what plants are doing good, will do good. The peas and beans are nice and high on their string, so the weeds will only chock them out so much now.
As far as some of my smaller plants that the weeds may still affect, like the peppers, lettuse, carrots etc, I just try to keep the rows as good as I can, not worring about between the rows at this point of the summer.
As far as the others like the brocolli, cauliflower etc, they are already heading to seed, which I am learning all about getting seeds from the plants, for my garden next year.
Go ahead and hit that like button, if you would like to see a blog on gathering garden seeds for the next year!
What did I plant?
This year as I said it is still a fairly large garden, but I defintly didn’t get as much as I would of liked in the garden this year.
With how fast the plants sold out, and with 2020, being well just that 2020, there was some other difficulties in play.
My garden in divided into 3 patches. I have one patch that has shorter rows that go east to west, one patch that is long rows, these run north to south. Then my last patch is just a patch, not rows this is where I have my squash, pumpkins, there was supposed to be melons, however long story short for the paragraph there is sunflower instead of melons haha… oh boy.
In there patch where I have short rows, some plants will do better in more shorter rows.
In these rows are my lettuse, spinich,green onions, cauliflower, brocolli, peppers, tomatoes, cabage, celery, brussel sprouts, carrots and radishes, and beets…. I think thats what’s in my short rows.
Now what didn’t do great for growing im trying to get seeds from the plants for next year!
This is something I am doing some homework on, I don’t know how to with all the plants, but I can learn!
Lettuce is doing awesome and I am having some go to seed, carrots I have never had good luck with, and I might be getting some this year!
I will also be trying to leave some to go to seed.
Radishes I got a lot of they did great, I’m also keeping a row in to get seeds for next year.
The peppers and tomatoes are doing well, tomatoes better then the peppers, however these you can eat and get the seeds!
Then the cabbage is ok they all did not make it to well, and this is a plant I need to see how to get the seeds.
The brocolli and cauliflower didn’t do the best, I did get some brocolli off, which the children took care of in a blink of an eye.
These are both getting ready to go to seed, which I am hoping to get for next year.
The long rows are my peas, beans and cucumbers, I always grow these in long alternating rows.
These I am seeing if any are to be left for seeds next year, cucumbers I think you can just take the seeds when eating.
Then the patch is doing ok, the squash is slow, but hopefully something will come about them.
As for as my sunflowers go, that were not supposed to be sunflowers lol, the seeds will be in the middle of the plant. There is also lots of seeds on each sunflower.
That is my garden up date, as I have been out there picking I am loving my garden hauls, I am focusing on peas and beans.
I am getting about a grocery bag a day. The peas get shelled and put into a ziplock bag and into the freezer for winter.
The beans are doing great also, I cut the tips and into a bag for the freezer.
As long as I have been doing a garden, there is still so much to learn.
Every year I will pick something to try to “baby” to learn more on how to grow it better, maybe try to learn more on seeds.
Every year is a new year, this garden year was just to try. To see how the spot may work, and to hope the garden would do good.
Now that I know the plants are going to be happy here, and next years garden should be fantastic.
Did you grow a garden this year?
Was it your first garden?
How did it grow?
Will you keep going on a garden?
They are a lot of work, but with a little research and some love and attention, you can have a fantastic garden, full of veggies, that will save you tons of money in the winter!
I hope you enjoyed this update garden blog, its crazy to think that fall is right around the corner.
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