So I’ve had a nice garden area that my husband built for me several years ago that has never been great if you know what I mean… I plant stuff, it never really does that well, I get disappointed then I just say “well then forget about you”… terrible I know.
Last night we were talking and I had mentioned that I want to increase my garden area, mind you the post are concreted in…so not sure how I would do that 🙂 then he brought up the dreaded fact of “Your garden has never really done much why would we want to increase the area?” I mean he’s right but come on give a girl a chance to live would ya? But then he brought up something else.. we need to replace the soil in the beds and maybe that would help. I thought well maybe that’s the problem? Anyone have any ideas on that one??
Fast forward to this morning when I was looking on social media and there is a page I follow on FB called @MIgardener his website is http://www.migardener.com, this morning he was talking about the difference between planting perennials and annuals in your garden area. Perennials are to be planted using your zoning area so when you hit the coldest part of the year in your area those plants will survive. I thought ok I knew that.. then he was talking about annuals like tomatoes, squash, sunflowers etc.. basically what he said was -anyone can grow anything in any area what you must first determine is “your growing season”. Days to maturity. I was like that’s it.. that’s part of the problem here. Replacing the dirt is part of the problem but finding things that fit within the “Days to Maturity” category for our area will help! Now you are probably thinking well duh.. how could you not understand that? I’ve seen that on my seed packets but I guess I never ever have figured out how many actual growing days we have here. Anyways food for thought today as we are all dreaming about spring and what’s to come. I gives me a little hope for some warmer and sunnier days..
Give him a follow on fb he does alot of great videos and I believe he is on youtube also..Have a fantastic Saturday. xox
Gina Marie 