#freshfood – Classy Classic's By Kandis

Hi good morning, welcome to another blog with me! I’m Kandis with Classy Classics By Kandis! I am a stay-at-home mom a for kids ages 12, 10, 4, and 2 years old!

I definitely am on my feet and on my toes all the time. With so many kids especially with so many boys three of them are boys, the groceries that goes with this house is unbelievable!

This is the reason why I need my garden, it’s not even want anymore and so need because of how many mouths there are lol.

I am a Frugal Living, budget loving, planner addicted stay home mom lol!

I have always loved growing stuff in a garden I have done a garden for about 10 years now, this is my second year for a garden in the spot oh, and I tell you I am still learning all sorts of stuff!

I thought as my garden is coming along now, all planted and ready to make me food, I would take you through my garden steps!

The kicker with my garden is anything that is grown in a garden can usually be grown also in a container!

What ever your garden space is or your time frame for planting you can also grow something but, beware gardening can be addictive! 😉

I love my flowers and trees as much as my garden! It is like a snow ball effect lol!

With the family growing the size of my garden definitely has too! With all the daily tasks already the kicker with adding is just that, adding more tasks to that already growing list! Make sure you don’t bite more then you can chew!

There is definitely a couple things I have learned in how to make the garden life easier to enjoy!

My garden got extended this year however, this is the size it will be now! So, couple years of hard work and it should get easier and easier! If you have a spot that has been there for years already then it will be easier already then starting one from scratch!

The first thing that I start with is to get right ground worked out and rotor tell, that’s your I actually made sure to get it spray with round up because it was extended again and it is a new garden that I am trying to to work with.

The next thing I did was I had went in to the garden and literally counted how many my feet the garden was oh, I say my feet because I have smaller feet so it’s not going to be like a full foot or something right LOL.

Then I get going on my outline oh, I had already done a rough outline to know what I needed to fit into the garden and tell you how to maybe make my sections. I’ll tell you more about my sections when we get to it.

So then the next thing that I have to do is I design my garden all of this can be done on a piece of paper or in a gardening book if you have one depending on how detailed you are and how many years you have been gardening. I said I have a gardening book because they say every five years to rotate your garden oh, they also say to watch what you plant in what soil and by what oh, so I find it easier to know where and what went where in case something goes wrong or I’m just trying something or I need to swap my rows around.

With the garden this year again I have it in 3 sections if you will! I have a section that contains short these are rows that are going across my garden as some things like to grow in shorter rows, it says its better for the growing! This is like radishes and carrots!

Then I have a section that I call my long grows oh, this is because they are just that long rows! These are used what’s my peas, beans and cucumbers.

Then on my third section I call my patch, this is because it typically will have my pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and any melons that I can find or start. There’s one by using a patch because they are super viney plants and they tend to spread across a large section oh, they will also choke out other plants smaller plants if you didn’t know LOL.

With this being the biggest garden that I have ever had and bigger than what I ever dreamed I would have there is a couple things that I am trying to figure out to make it just a little easier to keep up with it all.

With this I have a rototiller and I am hoping that my rows are big enough to make it through at least once, and then I just have to weed around my plants or rows.

Another thing that I am going to try this year some homemade Roundup and that way I won’t be as potent on my plants but I do know that it does work on me it’s because I have used it for years! So with this I’m going to see if I can use some homemade Roundup just do not like a spray bottle, for my weeds in between the rows and my flower bed! I will give you an update on how it goes for me lol when the time comes!

For the homemade Roundup you would need:

vinegar
table salt
blue original Dawn dish soap

With June all of a sudden half gone and our weather still pretty crazy hitting + 5 the at night it’s still pretty chilly at night for June and, my watermelon, cantaloupe and homeydews! So, my melons haven’t gone out yet it is actually still too cold at night for them and I am not going down to my garden to cover them at night because that is too cold!

There ya have it! My garden update so far! It is not perfect but it sure didn’t help the weeding that I got the seeds planted and then we have had a week of on and off thunderstorms lol! I will not complain about that I love storms and we sure needed the rain! However, remember when your plants are doing good the weeds are doing great!

I will do another garden update when everything is up more and rocking and rolling!

Did you put a garden in?

What do you grow?

Got some garden tips and tricks? Leave them in the comments or over on another page!

I will leave the links for my other social media pages, let’s connect!

I try to be on more with daily work 💪, what we are tackling that day! Chores of the day, supper ideas and just day to day mom stuff!

Hope to see you over there!

Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!

Bye for now!!

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Good morning welcome back to another blog on Classy Classics By Kandis!

How was your week last week?

Did you have a good Valentine’s Day?

Did you get a chance to read thevalentine’s blog? I’ll link it here!

VALENTINE’S DAY FUN

You know it’s funny because I was cleaning up today they found a couple presents for my daughter under my desk so I guess she gets extra presents this weekend!

I think she will be excited about it haha mom moment!

Can you believe it’s the end of February?

I got all my valentine’s decorations down, and am cleaning corners and dusting cobwebs! Have you started spring cleaning?

I’ll also leave that link here!

CLEANING CORNERS!

I think it went by really really fast oh, the point where I now have my seed starts out and I’m going to start couple of my plants!

I have my pictures of my seed starting at the bottom of the blog for you to look at how I started them this year oh, well some of my seeds this year!

In Saskatchewan I have to probably start stuff different than what are other provinces might!

With garden season sitting close to 12 weeks away there are a couple plants I need to get started now!

The seeds then I’m going to start this week my watermelon, brussel sprouts, peppers, banana peppers, broccoli, cauliflower and my cantaloupe!

This is also when you start celery I don’t know if I’m going to pre-start salary this year I have to actually finish points are my seeds first!

I actually just found a new way to organize my seeds I seen it on a garden group on Facebook!

It was using an old photo album and you know I have one that is not in you so I think I’m going to try! I will of course but it in a post when I try! I do have a cute seed container I got from the dollar store, that works great right now!

I really look forward to our next season this year oh, it was a crazy year and I look forward to challenging myself to see what I can do for a garden again this year!

Last year my garden was crazy fast put in, it was challenging to keep up with it last year I did it and it turned out pretty good, but this year I am excited about getting at the garden and seeing just how great it can be this year!

One of the blogs from the other garden years!

Growing A Garden!

I have a year that I have gardened in the spot now, so there’s definitely some things that I know that I didn’t know and some things that I would like to try that I didn’t get a chance last year!

Ideally when I look at the calendar I would like to have my garden ready to go by May long usually it’s the end of may!

I only say the end of me because it’s been years since we’ve actually been able to get a garden in May long!

They used to put gardens in my May long all the time and the weather is be changing so much through the last 10 years that it’s easier try to get a garden in that early anymore, so I do try to give myself a little bit of wiggle room and so I don’t get as ancy when garden season comes so I tell myself by the end of may!

HOW TO START SEEDS INDOORS:

The first thing you have to do is figure out what you were going to start your seeds in!

I start my seeds in egg cartons! They are put in fruit containers that act like a little greenhouse and then they just get transplanted with the egg carton still right into a bigger pot and then from that pot it goes into the ground! This is so I’m only actually transplanting those small little roots once!

I do have a heated starter that I got for my birthday last year, and with this I don’t put eggshells in it because it just has the black plastic holders! These are just dirt, that will get transferred straight into pots!

Another thing that I like to do when starting seeds is when you are putting their seeds in I always try to mix some hair and egg shells!

This round didn’t get any eggshells because I didn’t actually have any eggshell set aside for some reason, but I have some going now so that I can have egg shells from when I do my other seeds and when I do my transplanting to my bigger pots!

The hair I know sounds weird but, the protein in the hair makes it great for seeds! I have some hair from my boys hair cut last year that I just bagged and put into my garden box! You do want to try to have un died hair so there is no toxins going into the soil and seeds!

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR SEEDLINGS!

What do you do with your seedlings after you have all of these plants going?

After a couple weeks when your sprouts are beginning to get ready to start transplanting, I will start thinning them out only strong seedlings can stay, and then maybe get transplanted into next bigger size pots!

This is where you start getting a lot of stuff right now is when you don’t have these little squares you have tons of pot’s with plants!

I will use any window sill that I have, actually just moved a desk into my youngest kids room so that I can use the top of the desk in front of the window!

In my house if there’s a place that sunlight hits that’s where a plant goes! It’s hard because none of our plants in Saskatchewan can even start going out for another 2 1/2 months!

So if you live in Saskatchewan or someplace really cold make sure you are only starting plants that you have room for and make sure that you remember that you can spread out your starting of seeds!

So, something’s get started 12 weeks early something’s get started 8 weeks early most things only get started 6 to 4 weeks early!

My point so make sure you sketch out your plans and make sure you have the time frame but you have to space and don’t overdo it! Trust me it’s really easy to start them but, then all of a sudden you look around and you have a hundred plants into trying to find room for!

This actually happens a lot easier than what one would think it happens to me every year you think I would learn by now!

That is how I am starting my seeds this year!

Are you starting seeds this year?

Do you have a big garden?

When do you start your garden?

Gardens are so much fun they are definitely worth it in the end with they are definitely so much work!

Here is a link from last years garden blog!

The Garden and How Its Growing

Give yourself a little space, give yourself some time, give yourself a little pep talk and you will be loving garden food!

I hope you enjoyed this blog I’m starting seeds, I’ll love this time year! I’m sure you follow the other social media post there is more post and fun tips and tricks on starting seeds and lots more garden and summer fun coming! I will course leave those links down below to Facebook and Instagram, I hope you will come and join me over there to there for lots of fun!

So until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and work and a productive week!

Bye for now!