Your Garden is like your country.
As with any other war, when you know that the enemy is
about to attack, if you want to keep your garden from the enemy you must go to
war! As with any war it is won before any battle even starts.
When up in New England one could stick a seed in the
ground plant marigolds around it and come back later to pick some food!
But remember Mother Nature planted millions of rocks
and boulders all over New England! :-(
I now live in the center of bug, wild life, bird
alley, central Florida and quickly learned that I had to go to war to have my
garden! :-(
Never use chemicals, not needed and will kill you and
everything that you love plus all of the good bugs needed to help you win your
war!
I started my newer garden some time ago
My new garden is starting to take off,
refrigerator full of summer squash plants full of green tomatoes and the rest
of the garden climbing up the string and poles. :-)
Remember gardening can be easy and fun if done right.
You must start early and do a little each day? Never over do your garden fun or
it will quickly become work!
With my new garden, I have water ready so that each
evening just before the sun goes down, if no rain I can water.
My older garden, I could not water, so I saved up
plastic gallon bottles from milk, tea, store bought water and so on, punched
some extremely small holes about the size of a good sewing machine needle, at
the bottom, not in the bottom at the bottom, placed it into the ground up to
its neck and next to every plant and keep them full. I have my old 5 hp rotor
tiller (yes, over kill) from up north so I started these gardens (in Florida
sand) with a good tilling, after that just keep an eye on weeds and grass.
No tiller, no problem, just turn some grass over,
shake the dirt loose and use the grass for mulch. Mulching is for another
posting! A short cut is to buy the black plastic covering and cover the
ground, cutting holes as you plant? :-)
Now is the time to look back at my earlier posting
Spring Sprang Sprung
You can buy rolls of screening most any store and
fence off your garden, a must!
Use the buckets explained in the above posting to keep
our attackers from underground at bay.
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