Hello and good day!
We would encourage you this year to consider planting vegetables where in the past you might have only planted flowers and ornamentals. To eat food grown on your own land, even if is only an herb plant or two, will nourish you in more ways than filling your stomach! :)
It will also get you out in the garden a little more this year. We can chat more often with you, and you can enjoy watching all the little things that happen as your plants grow and mature. It will be like watching small children grow and develop - always fun and exciting. You will learn many things about yourselves too, just as all parents do.
You will get to know the birds, the squirrels and butterflies that frequent your yard. They each have their own personalities, if you notice closely and long enough. You may also find that the bird calls increase when you are out in the garden, or that the hawks circle over your head, bestowing their blessings on you.
So, on this fabulous spring day of Daylight Savings - a sure clue that warmer days are coming, consider planting a few vegetables, and hanging out with us in your garden this year!
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From Ahneeka:
ReplyDeleteAs I was preparing the soil in my garden bed (which was mostly unused or Impatiens last year), I was told to mix in bags of manure. As I was doing so, I heard that I should plant vegetables, heirloom vegetables to be precise.
I had heard that a store downtown, EVOLVE, had heirloom plants for sale, and stopped there last week. They had heirloom seeds - a lot of different ones!, but not the plants themselves. I didn't feel that working with the seeds was right for me, at least this year.
Yesterday I went to the Winter Park Farmers MArket, looking for heirloom vegetables, but didn't find any there. Next stop was Lowe's, thinking I would settle for whatever they had there. And lo, and behold, they offered heirloom Rutgers Tomato plants. Of course I bought some, along with some other herbs and vegetables (onions, eggplant) and planted them right away.
I'm not sure why the vegetables are so important this year, but as I planted, I kept seeing myself sharing the bounty with friends and neighbors in the months to come.
I have heard that the bee populations have been impacted by the hybridization of some plants. They are not getting what they need from the nectar to support healthy hive populations. Does anyone know more about this?