Feature #28, March 22, 2010
What beautiful veggies! At Home At Home get’s us ready for Spring
Now that I’ve moved, I’m finally in a home that has a great yard, and plenty of mature flowering shrubs and trees. With the onset of Spring, I’m ready to start thinking about a garden! I can admit (don’t like to, but will) I don’t have a green thumb. I can keep a few houseplants, but once we get to the garden, I need help! I’ve read a few great blog posts over the weekend for some gardening assistance.
At Home At Home, has a post about the vegetables and herbs she’s going to plant in her garden. Just looking at her pictures makes me want to get started!
So now I’m looking for a step-by-step guide, fool-proof method to get started. Petit Elefant has a post on “How to plant a vegetable garden”! Was she reading my mind or what?!
To follow her easy steps, read below and visit her post. I need more egg cartons! Maybe I’ll use paper Dixie cups instead? This is usually why my gardening goes south, quickly!
Petit Elefant gives a step-by-step guide on planting a vegetable garden
Step by Step Guide – Article by Allison Czarnecki
Step 1: Egg Cartons
Egg cartons as mini pots – who would have thought?
I start saving egg cartons in about January. Yes, really. They make the perfect little sized containers to transplant your plants once the ground is warm enough outside. Egg cartons are biodegradable, free {well, you know what I mean}, and you’re recycling. Win-win-win.
Step 2: Seeds
I don’t buy my seeds from catalogs, I just pick them up at the local grocery store, for 50% off their listed price {read: I rarely pay more than $1 per seed packet}. Get ’em wherever you like, and whatever variety of vegetables you’ll enjoy. I try to branch out a little more each year. Here’s what’s on the menu this season: Carrots, Beets, Peas, Spinach, Cucumber, & Onions.
Ready for the seeds…
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Nice post…Thank you for sharing some good things!!
Hey!
So it’s coming on September, how has your gardening developed? I moved last year, and was kid o in the same situation – but I live in a small flat in London and space is at a real premium so gardening (especially with vegetables) can be quite difficult to say the least!
I’ve found that buying those small PVC glasshouses works a treat – not sure if you would find thy useful or not.
Also, I you are looking for a step by step guide, there’s a great book “make your garden feed you” – you can amazon it, I bought and it helped me out tonnes (I think growing your own food is amazing)
Ps. Congratulations on your move
Jamie,
Not good! The bugs and biting flies took over and me and my daughter couldn’t stand going out there! So the weeds took over. 🙁
Meanwhile we are loving the house!
Thanks so much for your comment. 🙂
haha, oh dear! Its time to wage war on those weeds now I think! (trust me, there’s no better satisfaction that eating your own carrots) =)
Hopefully next spring we will do better! 🙁