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?
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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!
Bye for now!!
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