The Best Way to Start Your Spring Garden

THE BEST WAY TO START YOUR SPRING GARDEN INCLUDES SOWING SEEDS DIRECTLY INTO THE GROUND AND STARTING THEM INDOORS WITH YOUR OWN GREENHOUSES

Hey Mike…..Mike, Mike, Mike…..guess what day it is…..

Spring Garden day!!!!!

🎵🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Because we have basketball and cheering, flowers and showers, AND veggie gardens galore….🎶🎵

Really, it’s the hardest work Kris and I put into the yard all year!!! The kids help, the dogs help….its like a family free for all. We get dirty….some of us get into arguments with ants. But in the end, we are all happy to have our Spring Garden ready to be planted.

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We’ve passed our frost time and it’s safe to put plants in the ground. As I mentioned before, I learned my lesson with seeds. So the only thing I start indoors is tomatoes.

Peppers, cucumbers, peas, carrots, and squash all go directly into the earth.

I don’t plant anything we won’t eat. Again, I learned my lesson years ago….no one but me likes eggplant. I can’t eat 30 eggplants. Everyone will eat cucumbers, so we plant a LOT of those. Tomatoes are similar, so we plant different kinds of those.

This year we went to Home Depot and grabbed some already started tomato plants. Let me tell you why we did this – tomatoes are the most popular veggie in this house. My daughter will literally eat tomatoes out of the garden without washing them, so we need a LARGE supply. Starting them by seeds last year did not give us a lot of actual tomatoes. NOW – it was a really wet spring BUT I didn’t want to risk it………..so I bit the bullet and bought Bonnie plants.

1 – Soil

We prepare the garden with a mixture of compost and garden soil. All organic of course, no pesticides here! The smell is GROSS!!!! Consider yourself warned. But once everything is tilled, it goes away.

So we start with this:

The amount of soil in these boxes are too low, but you can see how much of the nutrients last year’s plants have used. When you see the end product you will understand more about why this part is important.

Clear out all old plants and weeds. You will thank yourself in 2 months, I promise!!!!

2 – Till

It is important to mix what you already have with your new soil. You want the plants to be able to grow deeper than the layer you have on top. You can till by hand or use this cool tool to help you. It will save your back!!!!!

3 – Plan

We drawn our plan out on paper, like mentioned in this post, we take our seed packets and already started plants and place them where we want them.

4 – Dig!

Make sure you read how far apart each vegetable needs to be planted and how much space they need to grow.

When sowing seeds outdoors, make it easy and create a trench. You can then push the dirt on them and they are in a sort of straight line.

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See the planting is easy…it’s the preparing that takes the longest. But once you do it a few times, it becomes like second nature. AGAIN, get the family involved. My kids love pushing the seeds into the earth. That way when it starts to grow, they can say “I did that!”

Next project will be to mulch all the garden areas! That is back breaking work!!!

Happy Growing,