Category Archives: The Garden

Garden Update 1st week of August

My garden has survived being flooded by all the rain we’ve had, being attacked by bugs and now it’s fighting off some kind of fungus. I’m surprised it’s still living, but it is and some things are finally starting to grow and produce. Since my last update, we dug the potatoes. After being flooded and sitting in water several different times, quite a few started to rot. In fact some were so rotten that Miley decided she didn’t want to help me dig them. That girl refusing the opportunity to dig in dirt… yeah, it was THAT bad. But on the positive side, we did manage to get a nice little box full.

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The Great Pumpkin Challenge

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My mom and I have been going to a little greenhouse, Mulberry Lane Greenhouse, which happens to be owned by one of our neighbors just a few miles from where we live. We’ve had so much fun shopping there for garden veggies and flowers to plant. It’s a really neat little greenhouse that has a wide selection of plants, seeds and other garden related supplies, so if you live locally, you really ought to go check it out.

One day we stopped there and saw they had some Dill’s Atlantic Giant Pumpkin plants for sale. The greenhouse was having a pumpkin growing contest and who ever bought a plant would be entered. My mom and I looked at each other and decided we had to try growing some. We each picked out a plant and decided we’d challenge each other to see who could grow the biggest one. I’ve grown pumpkins a few times, but haven’t been too successful at it. So once we got home, I did a little research to see if there were any good tips or tricks to growing them. As I was reading, I was thinking…. whoa… holey moly…..those things get BIG….oh man, I’m not going to have any room in my garden…. I really need to learn to research before buying. I suspected just by the name, they would be big but had no idea they would be that big or require THAT much space. Continue reading →

Our Garden

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This is our third year having this garden where we now live. The first two years we tilled, then planted and mulched part of it with straw and the rest we tried to keep weeded. Also, our chickens free range so we learned early on that chickens and gardens are two things that don’t mix well at all. The first year when the mulch kept getting scattered and all the green tomatoes had holes pecked in them, we decided that we needed a fence around it. Not wanting to put too much time or money into it, we got orange plastic snow fencing and put it up with fence posts. It was a quick, easy, cheap fix that did the trick. The second year, we did the same but the fence started having wear and tear and the chickens kept finding holes and also learned how to squeeze under the fence where ever it was loose. Also we had the problem of weeds growing up through the fence, which made it hard to keep them under control because hoes and weed eaters just tore it up.