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 I've Always Liked Bringing the Cauliflower In That won't be the case anymore. Each of the four cauliflower heads that I just harvested had between 6 and 10 cabbage moth cattapillers hiding up inside. So Its Ground Hog Day Today That means we will get six more weeks of winter. Don't believe it. The Second Week In April Is the Traditional Time I'll be planting my second patch of corn because the first planting is doing so well. I've had to cover it four nights so far so I wouldn't recommend that early a planting for anyone but the goombahs who would rather be in their gardens than anywhere else. Water Your Garden Whenever You Want It's nice to have a little wind while you're working in the garden because as soon as your shirt gets wet you start to feel cooler. Got a lot done in-between shade sitting, rocking and musing. The Six Packs I Started With Miracle-Gro Not only are they dark green, bushy and sturdy, but the second set of leaves are serrated as if the plants were twice as old. They look like they are ready for transplanting already. Mulch is Important Straw is enjoyed by all your plants because it draws the earthworms up to feast on it. They till the soil around the roots allowing water an air easy access. Global Warming Has Caused Our Last Average We are in zone 8b according to Frostdate. com. The Weed Patch That I Occulted The corn wilts rapidly and thoroughly every few days. I think the lack of organic matter applied to the ground over the years allowed it to remain in it's natural clay composition. My Cilantro Is Ready To Start Picking I haven't even gotten a ripe tomato yet, and the peppers look like my dog's been peeing on them. They are short, squat and yellowish and have a Dick Cheny snear to them. I Transplanted Cauliflower Yesterday and This Morning Crazy huh. Usually the ones you move tend to fall over because you disturb the roots. I Picked The Cauliflower That Had Caterpillar I guess this time of year the leaves are so tender that they don't eat the crown. The leaves went on the ground, overlapping like shingles, along the burm that surrounds the plot. The Most Important Thing You Can Do I worked it down about 8" into the soil in a plot that got rich, black and fluffy. It looked like such loose ground that I decided to plant potatoes in it because they would be so easy to harvest. More Gardening Articles
