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Apr
Posted by Julie Brown in Cold Weather Gardening, Designing and Constructing Your Garden, Healthy Soil/Composting, Seeds to Transplanting, Watering. Tagged: garden, garden planner, Gardening, Growing Food, mulch, planning a garden, starting gardening, vegetable gardening, vegetables, watering, weeds. Leave a comment
What should you be doing in your garden right now? There are many things you could be doing in your garden right now and really it depends on what your particular garden needs but here are a few ideas for you.
- Adding organic matter. I add organic matter AT LEAST twice a year. One is in the fall we grind up our leaves with the lawn mower and spread them all around the grow boxes after they are all cleaned out for the winter. Then we also add a nice thick layer of mulch around
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13
Mar
Posted by Julie Brown in Watering. Tagged: different climates, drip irrigation, how to water your garden, mulch, planing out a watering system in your garden, vegetable garden, water on the ground, watering jugs, watering with drip irrigation, when to water. 1 comment
Watering your garden is a very important step in the process of growing your fruit and vegetables. It can also be of big concern when it comes to using too much or too little. How do you find that fine balance? That answer can be different from yard to yard, and from state to state. Here are some tips that will help.
- Water in the morning. Watering in the early morning before the sun warms up the air and ground will help to prevent most of the water being lost to evaporation. Watering at night might also do that, however, you might also open up the possibility for fungus and mold to grow with the water having such a long time to sit. The plants are better prepared for the day with a nice drink of water first thing in the morning.
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What should you be doing in your garden right now? There are many things you could be doing in your garden right now and really it depends on what your particular garden needs but here are a few ideas for you.
