Early Gardening Tips
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I don't have a large garden, but I do plant tomatos and many different types of flowers anually. I have two preseason tips for gardeners.
1. Throughout the year, especially during the non growing part of the year, dispose of all your garbage in your garden. I keep a large plastic coffee can on my kitchen counter. I put all my garbage in it, coffee grounds, meats, rinds.......all garbage in it. It fills up about once a week. When it is full, I dig a hole in my garden and bury the garbage. I move the shovel each time I plant the garbage, so that I know where the next lot goes. Surprisingly, after about a month and a half, the garbage completely disappears. The reason being will be seen in tip #2. The garbage in the soil keeps the soil rich for growing things.
2. I'm not selling anything, but for the last 10 years or so, I've been ordering worms on line and planting them in my garden. I order about 1,000 worms anually, at the start of spring, mainly red wrigglers and Canadian night crawlers. These worms cost me about $50 anually and keep the soil well irrigated and, along with the garbage in tip #1, they keep important nutrients in the soil. If one desires, one can even start their own worm farm. I buy my worms from either Amazon or Jim's Worm Farm. See below:
Amazon.com : worms
Buy Red Wigglers Worm Composting and Vermicomposting supplies (unclejimswormfarm.com)
Those are my two tips for preseason garden prep.
1. Throughout the year, especially during the non growing part of the year, dispose of all your garbage in your garden. I keep a large plastic coffee can on my kitchen counter. I put all my garbage in it, coffee grounds, meats, rinds.......all garbage in it. It fills up about once a week. When it is full, I dig a hole in my garden and bury the garbage. I move the shovel each time I plant the garbage, so that I know where the next lot goes. Surprisingly, after about a month and a half, the garbage completely disappears. The reason being will be seen in tip #2. The garbage in the soil keeps the soil rich for growing things.
2. I'm not selling anything, but for the last 10 years or so, I've been ordering worms on line and planting them in my garden. I order about 1,000 worms anually, at the start of spring, mainly red wrigglers and Canadian night crawlers. These worms cost me about $50 anually and keep the soil well irrigated and, along with the garbage in tip #1, they keep important nutrients in the soil. If one desires, one can even start their own worm farm. I buy my worms from either Amazon or Jim's Worm Farm. See below:
Amazon.com : worms
Buy Red Wigglers Worm Composting and Vermicomposting supplies (unclejimswormfarm.com)
Those are my two tips for preseason garden prep.
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This year I actually ordered 2lbs, 2,000 worms from Amazon with free shipping for $59. The worms arrived alive and well within 2 days. I dug 10 small holes around my garden and dumped in a handful of worms in each holel, poured a little water on them and covered them up. About a 1/2 hours work. Here is the exact purchase I made on Amazon:
Amazon.com: Uncle Jim's Worm Farm European Nightcrawlers Composting and Fishing Worms 2 Lb Pack : Patio, Lawn & Garden
Amazon.com: Uncle Jim's Worm Farm European Nightcrawlers Composting and Fishing Worms 2 Lb Pack : Patio, Lawn & Garden
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A third tip:
3. When the leaves fall in autumn my neighbors rake them up and put them in bags for trash pick up. No need to tell you that I grab a few bags and spread them over my garden area at the end of the growing season. Then, as I'm digging individual holes for my garbage, the leaves get turned over in to the soil also. The worms make excellent compost and the worms make them disappear.
3. When the leaves fall in autumn my neighbors rake them up and put them in bags for trash pick up. No need to tell you that I grab a few bags and spread them over my garden area at the end of the growing season. Then, as I'm digging individual holes for my garbage, the leaves get turned over in to the soil also. The worms make excellent compost and the worms make them disappear.
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I like leaf mulch too, don't let my compost go to waste and have a large bin for it outside next to the garden.
There's a pretty good population of earthworms from my compost and leaves from my maple tree. 2,000 more would do a lot of work. There are a lot of people with big bags of leaves in the fall on curbside for the landfill. That's many pounds of rich organic minerals. I think that next fall I'll do the same on my other property in case I ever move back to the countryside the soil will be ready to plant near the house.
There's a pretty good population of earthworms from my compost and leaves from my maple tree. 2,000 more would do a lot of work. There are a lot of people with big bags of leaves in the fall on curbside for the landfill. That's many pounds of rich organic minerals. I think that next fall I'll do the same on my other property in case I ever move back to the countryside the soil will be ready to plant near the house.
Gardening Tip:
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We normally get a lot more rain in West Virginia than some states, sometimes even when there are Southern droughts. One section of the state is considered a "rain forest."
The Southern states have the benefits of the longer growing season, but often have to spend a fortune on city water and sewage to water their gardens. Up here, our season is not as long, but we had two weeks without rain at the second half of May. Those of us who have wells take note.
God just answered prayer when He sent a barrage of lightning and thunder that sounded like it went on continuously for a whole minute! That announced the rain that just fell! Thank YOU Father!
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We normally get a lot more rain in West Virginia than some states, sometimes even when there are Southern droughts. One section of the state is considered a "rain forest."
The Southern states have the benefits of the longer growing season, but often have to spend a fortune on city water and sewage to water their gardens. Up here, our season is not as long, but we had two weeks without rain at the second half of May. Those of us who have wells take note.
God just answered prayer when He sent a barrage of lightning and thunder that sounded like it went on continuously for a whole minute! That announced the rain that just fell! Thank YOU Father!
One tip I can share: diatomaceous Earth. It is a natural dusting powder that causes all the bugs that eat your small kale and other seedlings to die from small cuts. Works for pepper beetles too. But to humans it is not harmful and is even considered to be food grade. Just don’t use it around your blossoms as it could kill the pollinators. https://www.homesandgardens.com/gardens/diatomaceous-earth
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