Saturday, July 5, 2008

Our little plot of land


This year we started our very first "real" garden. We planted tons of vegetables and fruits. When looking at our garden, sometimes I feel that it is puny... Compared to some our garden is so small, but when we were tilling the ground I thought it was really something. A big piece of land for our garden. (Truthfully, it is only about 15' X 20'.) In the beginning we wanted be completely organic. This lasted shortly. We had to give up and put Sevin on the garden. Our vegetables were being eaten by tons of bugs. No matter how much we read on the net about how to take care of the problem organically it didn't seem to work. We put corn meal on the ground, used dish soapy water, picked the bugs off by hand, and more... nothing worked until the Sevin. Mostly, at this point, we are having success with our veggies. Our poor watermelons, though, have not survived... Nothing has seemed to work. We have put out four plants and everyone has died. I think we are giving up on them at this point.

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