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« The Oriental Poppy | Main | Hope High Farmers Market returns » June 4, 2008Garden 2008, a la my grocery store cashierI ran across a friendly cashier one day at the grocery store and I happened to blurt to her in conversation that I was not in the mood to till my garden for spring planting. She was thrilled to be able to tell me (and I was thrilled to hear it), that we don't have to do that every year, in fact, it isn't beneficial. "Like a lasagna," she said. "A layer of newspapers and then a layer of grass clippings..." I'd heard that once before some time ago during my URI Master Gardener training and must have forgotten, but this year, in a much busier time in my life, I made a decision to go that route. Not even a week later, before I began this new gardening method, my landscaper dropped by to see how things were progressing with last fall's plantings and he asked me about my garden. I told him my plan and he agreed with the cashier, adding that the worms don't like it when you dig up the soil and that disturbed soil is an invitation to weeds. For 32 years, I've been breaking my back every summer needlessly?
Well, whether or not it was the right option to choose, that's what I've got this year. And the best part is that it is D-O-N-E! It isn't pretty, but it's looking pretty healthy. It took me the better part of one Saturday. As it grows, I'll post new photos. I put in peas, lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, basil, spinach, peppers, potimarron squash, butternut squash and pickling cukes (for my father). Hopefully this is going to keep the weeds down so I can spend more time with the family – at the beach, eating tomato, mozzarella and basil sandwiches, of course! Anyone know where I can buy mozzarella plants?
Posted by Beth Heaney CommentsNancy | June 6, 2008 11:58 AM link Do you think readers thought I was serious about the mozzarella plants? One day when I was a little girl, my Grampa, who was always teasing me just to make me laugh, brought me a packet of spaghetti seeds (a novelty, of course) and told me to plant them along the side of the shed, which I did. Nothing ever happened (duh!), but it surprises me, now that I'm grown and remembering his sense of humor so vividly, that he never followed up by sticking spaghetti in the ground during the night just to make me believe it grew there. And one day he bought cherries at the market, placing them in the shrubs in my yard, then called me outside (quick!) to see them... Is it any wonder I have such a silly sense of humor? Beth | June 10, 2008 8:56 AM link Actually I think I heard that the first spaghetti squash was grown somewhere in Warwick back in the 60s. Nancy | June 10, 2008 10:17 AM link What a fantastic tip! and the photos are beautiful! smorse | June 12, 2008 10:09 PM link Good to know...for next year. This year I did just enough tilling to make the worms mad and the weeds happy... At Home Redesigns | June 19, 2008 10:50 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. |
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Disturbing the worms and encouraging weeds is not good...I love this idea. So easy. Thanks for the tip. I'll pass it on to all my friends with green thumbs.
You might even grow a brochure or a pamphlet or 2...I had to throw that in.