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 Caught A Third Rat In The Same Spot Same size too, so either he was a visiting uncle, or I'm working on a family of siblings. I've got to rethink my piling garden waste mixed with blackberry vines and grape trimmings along the fence lines because it's way too enabling for them. Flowers in the Vegetable Garden It reseeds itself so you never know where they will be next year. Your garden gets rearranged for you. There's Was Another Juvenile Rat In The Trap I better add peanut butter to the shopping list, this may take awhile. There were also red buds on the oak tree. I Sharpened My Hula Hoe Today It made a huge difference in ease of weeding. I've been used to small one inch weeds but this spring I've got behemoths. It Got Down To 20°F Last Night I've got a clean raised bed in the greenhouse that's just begging to grow something. I even dragged two furrows 10" apart in it because it looks better that way than flat. Gophers, Moles, and Cats There are enough bushes and shade there for them to hang out all day. One of the problems with sheet composting with un shredded garden waste is that it makes an ideal habitat for mice. Grandpas Garden Grandpas Garden is a collection of knowledge from an avid grandpa who happens to have an amazing garden. I Realized Today That I Had A Huge Weed Patch It's called occultation, and is an organic technique for weed suppression. Ideally I would have cut them down to the ground before covering them, but I've grown weary of my weedwacker already. Garden Shade I've moved it around to all of my cole crop rows to give them each a few days of partial shade. They perk up shortly and then I move it on to another row. I Have A Row Of Beets That Just Too Pretty to Pick Their cranberry colored stems and dark green leaves with cranberry colored veins are in contrast with all the other assorted shades of green in the garden. They are uniformly tall and evenly spaced and I hate to ruin the symmetry by picking some. 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. Organic Gardening Makes Good Soil You can grow healthy veggies hydroponically with chemicals. Enriching your soil with organic matter is thought to balance out the beneficial microorganisms with the pathogens, making your ecologically diverse ground a haven for enriched plant growth. More Gardening Articles
