How is your garden doing this spring?Seeding, planting, watering, controlling insects, weeding...gardening is fun but it's also work. Fortunately, we've already appreciated eating vegetables from our small garden. The flowers are adding nice colors to our backyard too.
The romaine lettuce and radishes came quick. We didn't do so good with the sweet peas. The tomatoes are doing well too.
We're trying to stay organic as much as we can.
Are you having any problems with aphids on your lettuce? Debbie has been spraying them with water and it's working except they keep coming right back. Now, she is using soapy water which worked well for us in the past. I smiled when I saw some ladybugs in the garden. They'll be good for something.
The pruning in the fall paid off with the fruit trees growing well.It's not always that simple to choose seeds, plants, and flowers for a small garden. We have a good variety of vegetables with various peppers, squash, tomatoes, radishes, peas.
These are some of the things we keep in mind year after year that have proven to be useful. You may want to try them as well:
- we rotate the plants every new season
- not forgetting where we get the most sun and shade and plant accordingly
- grouping our plants and vegetables
- remembering past successes and the "not so good results" so we adjust our soil condition
- staying practical with location for climbing vegetables, the ones that take a lot of room, the ones the grow wide (squash), and the ones that grow fast then needing to be replaced because they can't handle the heat later on.
- We try to stay organic.
