GrandpaâÂÂs Garden is a collection of hints and tips to help you get more enjoyment out of your garden. Grandpa in his native habitat - the garden. Suggested Grandpa's Garden Articles The Buckbrush Is Beginning To Look Like Popcorn Soon the sweet fragrance of their flowers will fill the land. The warmth of an early spring is increasing, and I've started UV acclimating my squash and melon starts. Getting The Weeding Done In The Garden I had broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts in rootbound six packs, and didn't have time to weed outside the areas they were going. They got planted in assorted rows in two patches because they have the same water requirements. I Never Did Get My Horseradish Harvested The freezing nights came and killed the leaves, they fell to the ground, the earthworms came up at night and ate them, and now there's just stalks radiating from the base. I guess I could go ahead and dig some of the roots up, wash them and peel them with a potato peeler. I Brought My Weed Eater Down To the Garden What a jungle. I might be carrying this "back to nature" thing a bit too far. I Got a Fourth Planting of Lettuce Why so much lettuce you might ask. Well, truth be known, my third planting didn't come up. The Only Problem With the Incredible Amount of Kale I'm going to try putting Apple Cider Vinegar on it to kill the taste. It's the jagged leafed purple and green kind that used to taste more like spjnach. So Its Ground Hog Day Today That means we will get six more weeks of winter. Don't believe it. I Had To Give Up On My First Planting of Peas They have been in the ground a month, and the ground along the trellis is still soggy enough to have grown algae. It's been a very wet year. Gardeners Start Your Engines - It's Time It's time to get a head start on your summer garden. Planting zucchini indoors, a month before the last frost, allows me to begin harvesting around Father's day. I Think Weed Barrier Fabric May Be the Gardening Trend for the Future No one has time to weed the whole garden, but everyone loves fresh produce. I've been weeding around the plants this year and weedeating the rest. For All You Younger Gardeners Tomatoes, zucchini, pole beans and cucumbers all get planted one time in the spring, and you keep harvesting them all summer long. In fact the more you pick the more you get. Now Is A Good Time To Get Rid of Bermuda Grass When the soil is soaked down to eight inches or so you have better luck with not breaking off the runners as you pull them up. Each runner has a tuft of roots every inch along it, and a nub for stem development, and can grow underground for two feet. More Gardening Articles