My Top 5 Garden Tips For Beginners - Okay, this post is mostly a reminder to myself not to screw up like I did last season. It was our first real summer as backyard gardeners and I didn’t do the home work I should have so we would be prepared.
Instead of planning ahead of time we just did what we thought was the right thing to do. Not too bright but we are learning and sharing what we learn.
I think my wife should have looked to see if I had a green thumb before she allowed me to run the show.
We are already planning for next spring and maybe this year we won’t be a month late planting our garden. We were probably the only ones in town that had new potatoes at the end of the season. I have to laugh at myself sometimes.
I am sure that I am not alone when it comes to being a newbie as a backyard gardener. I figure I might just as well put the tips here that I need to remember so others starting out won’t make the same mistakes.
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Backyard Garden Tips For Spring
Gardening Tips #1: Start planning your garden NOW, while it’s still winter. We waited until it was already spring before we started our planning and by the time we had our plan in place we were late, very late.
It’s all a learning experience by there is no need to learn the hard way, like we did last season.
Gardening Tips #2: Know the nutrients and soil conditions for each plant you put in your garden, whether they are vegetables, fruit or flowers, they all have nutritional requirements that will cause them to suffer if not met.
Gardening Tips #3: Our soil sucks big time and almost like concrete so we chose to use raised bed so that we would have the right soil no matter where we planted.
Gardening Tips #4: Know what the spacing for each plant you decide to grow but keep in mind that some plants can be planted fairly close together and then thinned out as they grow.
This tip is great for those that like baby beets or baby turnips. You can have an early treats while giving the rest of the plants more room to grow as they mature.
Gardening Tips #5: Keep good notes on your progress and don’t give up if you mess it up like I did. Just learn from those mistakes and do better next time.
Even though I was late planting we still had a lot of great produce, just not as much as we would have if we had planted a month sooner.
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