Gardening Ideas from Melba's Garden

Melba Price has been gardening for many years and was nice enough to offer us some practical tips. She grows vegetables, flowers, and various berries. The collage above shows you some pictures from her garden.
Here is Melba:

1. Start small and expand when you feel like you can handle more. Gardening is a lot of work and you don't want to overdo it too quickly and get discouraged. Build on your success.

2. You will get some bad seeds from time to time. Simply be aware of it and just replant with good seeds.

3. I constantly keep my three essentials of gardening in mind: water, soil, and sun. You need a good balance. When something is going wrong with your garden, you can usually trace it to one of those essentials. I personally add "Miracle-gro" every other week to keep my soil rich.

4. Learn to identify garden pests and check daily. Get rid of them quickly. I try to be as organic as possible but sometimes I just get my "Sevin Dust" out. That seems to work best for me.

5. Keep the area around your garden beds free of grass and weeds. You don't want grass clippings in your garden beds because you have to mow close to your garden.

6. Read and talk to others about gardening and learn as you go. You'll gain experience and enjoy the rewards. I mentioned earlier that gardening is lot of work. It's also a lot of fun when you start enjoying it. And it's easy to enjoy when you start eating fresh vegetables from your garden and seeing pretty flowers around the house.

7. Always share what you grow from your garden with others. Your blessings will multiply.
Good gardening and never give up.

Relax and have fun!
Melba

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The three important factors for good gardening

Are you having a problem with your plants and/or flowers growing?

Make sure you have these three factors in check and you will be ahead:

• Soil
• Sun
• Water

You need a rich soil that is well composted, balanced, and aerated. 
You need decent sunlight for your plants and flowers when called for.
And you need sufficient water.

If your soil is rich and you know you are getting enough sun, then you need to water more...unless you're watering way too much, then you need to water less.  Usually, your plants and flowers need more water.
We just had that experience, that's why I'm writing this post. 

We knew we had a small problem with our soil.  We took care of that this year.  And we know our plants and vegetables are receiving enough sun.  So, why were our plants, flowers, and vegetables suffering? 

On a visit to our friends James and Melba, we noticed how well their vegetables were doing.  We got the answer to our dilemma in a conversation with them.  James said: soil, sun, and water.  If you have good soil, enough sun, but poor result, then water more.  We did that and it was magic.  Happy plants, vegetables, and flowers.  Everything resumed grow with nature's smile.  So, we thought we should share.

Enjoy!