With March 20th being the beginning of spring, it’s time to begin thinking about starting our gardens. With the recent insanity buying due to the widespread pandemic, it should be a reminder that if we have soil to grow food on, we should use it. Having grown up gardening with my family, I feel that I have that gardening gene. This is probably why I’m so passionate about whole food nutrition and really have a problem with the high potency isolates found in the traditional supermarket, drugstore, and health food store vitamin offerings.
There’s something special about seeing those new sprouts coming up and eventually producing an abundance of food for the table, the canner, and the freezer.
As with our bodies, the health of the plant depends on the health of the soil. The seed actually grows the soil, the total nutrient content of the plant is directly related to the soil it’s grown in. This is one of the reasons a backyard garden is far more nutritious than much of what’s grown on commercial farms. We can have complete control over soil conditions at home with the use of proper composting.
Having chickens and letting them prepare my soil is an added bonus. They get to clear out the weeds and insects prior to planting, and they fertilize the soil at the same time.
Depending on the region where you live, look at what crops should be planted this time of year. I’m late getting my peas in the ground. They can grow up through the occasional light snowfall without damage, so the end of February is usually when I get them in the ground.
Backyard gardens can be done in whisky barrels, the corner of lawns, along fences, and even some of the creative planters made out of PVC pipe. These can take up minimal space and are easily cared for. I’m presently looking at a vertical strawberry garden made this way. The options are many, and much can be checked out as do it yourself projects found on line.
If you’re short of material for soil and fertilizer, check out local dairies, chicken farmers, and your local Asplund tree service. These places can provide soil enrichment, and the tree service wood chips that can be used to top the soil and hold in vital moisture, reducing the need to water.
To get a better insight into how to be more successful at gardening, I advise you to view this Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPPUmStKQ4
Jen Miller recently sent me a web page which shows an updated DIY method for this kind of gardening, with extremely simple and easy to follow directions. https://happydiyhome.com/back-to-eden-gardening/
Consider these possibilities as gardening doesn’t have to be extra difficult or time consuming. Once you have your garden in order, it’s easy to maintain year after year. Since starting this newsletter over the weekend, I installed two PVC vertical strawberry gardens with a soaker hose running through the center and connected to the timer which takes care of giving water to my chickens every day. Since my office is so time intensive, I don’t have lots of time to care for a garden. So far I’ve got my beets, spinach, lettuce, beans, and peas in the ground. Next comes the corn and carrots, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, Basil, and whatever I might have forgotten. Seeing the ground beginning to produce healthy, fresh, organic produce is extremely rewarding.
With the stressors of being quarantined, staying home, and feeling helpless and hopeless, turn your time into productive action. If you have an area of ground that’s doing little more than creating more work for you and your lawn mower, make it work for you. Unless you enjoy eating grass, which won’t provide you the nourishment which that area of soil could generate if you just take the right kind of care for it. God put man in a garden and told him to care for it. It’s time to return to that directive.
If the financial impact of Covid-19 becomes significant enough, that garden may be one of the best things you devoted your time to. Not only that, but fresh fruits and vegetables are one of the best sources of nourishment required to maintain a healthy immune system which can help you ward off these kinds of diseases. Don’t be one of the potential casualties because of malnutrition. The best foods you’ll ever eat are the ones you pick fresh from own backyard garden.
There’s something special about seeing those new sprouts coming up and eventually producing an abundance of food for the table, the canner, and the freezer.
As with our bodies, the health of the plant depends on the health of the soil. The seed actually grows the soil, the total nutrient content of the plant is directly related to the soil it’s grown in. This is one of the reasons a backyard garden is far more nutritious than much of what’s grown on commercial farms. We can have complete control over soil conditions at home with the use of proper composting.
Having chickens and letting them prepare my soil is an added bonus. They get to clear out the weeds and insects prior to planting, and they fertilize the soil at the same time.
Depending on the region where you live, look at what crops should be planted this time of year. I’m late getting my peas in the ground. They can grow up through the occasional light snowfall without damage, so the end of February is usually when I get them in the ground.
Backyard gardens can be done in whisky barrels, the corner of lawns, along fences, and even some of the creative planters made out of PVC pipe. These can take up minimal space and are easily cared for. I’m presently looking at a vertical strawberry garden made this way. The options are many, and much can be checked out as do it yourself projects found on line.
If you’re short of material for soil and fertilizer, check out local dairies, chicken farmers, and your local Asplund tree service. These places can provide soil enrichment, and the tree service wood chips that can be used to top the soil and hold in vital moisture, reducing the need to water.
To get a better insight into how to be more successful at gardening, I advise you to view this Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPPUmStKQ4
Jen Miller recently sent me a web page which shows an updated DIY method for this kind of gardening, with extremely simple and easy to follow directions. https://happydiyhome.com/back-to-eden-gardening/
Consider these possibilities as gardening doesn’t have to be extra difficult or time consuming. Once you have your garden in order, it’s easy to maintain year after year. Since starting this newsletter over the weekend, I installed two PVC vertical strawberry gardens with a soaker hose running through the center and connected to the timer which takes care of giving water to my chickens every day. Since my office is so time intensive, I don’t have lots of time to care for a garden. So far I’ve got my beets, spinach, lettuce, beans, and peas in the ground. Next comes the corn and carrots, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, Basil, and whatever I might have forgotten. Seeing the ground beginning to produce healthy, fresh, organic produce is extremely rewarding.
With the stressors of being quarantined, staying home, and feeling helpless and hopeless, turn your time into productive action. If you have an area of ground that’s doing little more than creating more work for you and your lawn mower, make it work for you. Unless you enjoy eating grass, which won’t provide you the nourishment which that area of soil could generate if you just take the right kind of care for it. God put man in a garden and told him to care for it. It’s time to return to that directive.
If the financial impact of Covid-19 becomes significant enough, that garden may be one of the best things you devoted your time to. Not only that, but fresh fruits and vegetables are one of the best sources of nourishment required to maintain a healthy immune system which can help you ward off these kinds of diseases. Don’t be one of the potential casualties because of malnutrition. The best foods you’ll ever eat are the ones you pick fresh from own backyard garden.
RSS Feed