Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi Mallory,
    I am right there with you. I just bought some raised beds and some plants to
put in it. I have never grown a garden but I did try doing flowers a couple
years ago. I cut out an area and dug down about six inches put in new soil and
the flowers I bought along with some vines to grow up the trellis, well after
all that I am out there constantly pulling grass and weeds that don't seem to
die and the vines don't stay on the trellis they always come off and now it's a
mess.
   I am still trying as I was out there Thursday cleaning it up and noticed a
lot of flower buds coming up. I will probably mulch it soon as I don't want to
cover the buds.
   I am excited to do the vegetable garden. I also bought a couple blueberry
bushes, raspberry bushes and blackberry bushes to plant also. The rose bushes
didn't make it. I know I will find something that wont die as all my houseplants
do well.
   I am in agreement that it'll be much cheaper to grow our own food as I
noticed a huge increase in food. I wish we had more land as I would also like to
get some animals but we have cranky neighbors and I can't even keep my dog
outside as he barks whenever someone walks through the yard or he sees an animal
on the property.

   I have started making my own breads as I love to cook and bake. I am waiting
for the day that I can stay home and do what I enjoy but right now I work 60
hours a week with a 2 hour commute a day. Doesn't give me a lot of time for
anything with the cleaning, cooking and the kids, they are teens but completely
useless to do anything. We have tried everything.
   We are also trying to redo our home as we bought an old victorian that needs
a ton of work. We have realized we took on more than we should of but we will
fight to keep it. I think we have 11 years left on our mortagage but have come
up with a plan to reduce everything quickly.

    Good luck learning about gardening. I have been doing a lot of research and
looking into companion gardening.

Rose
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From: M <malloryoneal04@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, April 16, 2011 4:14:44 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] New to group from Northwest Ohio

 
Hello everyone.

I'm timidly introducing myself *wave* as a gardening newbie. My mother has
always had lovely gardens and water gardens as well. I enjoyed them but never
liked working in them, and never learned to identify anything.

Grown up now, have a husband and two small children, living in the home that my
husband grew up in and that his parents actually built. I believe there's an
acre and a half of land we're on, so not huge but plenty of room for us all and
the family dog.

Far in the back of the yard is my mother-in-law's garden bed. Its severely
neglected from years of overgrowth of weeds and the fencing to keep rabbits out
has since been knocked over. I'm pretty sure the watering system is shot and
that most everything has died off. (Except something my MIL calls walking
onions... Apparently they're everywhere back there. Not that I could point them
out or anything.)

Well as I'm maturing and opening my eyes to the ill effects that genetically
modified food has on us, plus the fact that this is economy is well, crap... it
will be healthier and more affordable to grow our own food. But I have to admit,
this seems pretty daunting. I have only had a few plants of my own, all which I
killed with the black-thumb-of-death. lol I'm hoping that I will have some luck
and that come sometime this year, we will be enjoying home grown vegetables like
carrots, corn, lettuce, cabbage, beans, peppers, etc... among a few other
things.

Bear with me please, if I have a lot of (stupid) questions, where I'm sure a lot
of you will be thinking, "DUH!" Glad I found this group, though!

-Mallory

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