It’s been a month since I planted the garden seeds and I’d say my experiment has been a success. About 2/3 of the plants are growing from the holes I dug and the remaining 1/3 are from the seeds I simply stomped into the dirt. That’s in line with the way I planted them. We’ll have to wait to see how much fruit the plants produce, but these early results suggest that I’ve been wasting time and money buying more mature plants at farmers’ markets and at the big box stores.
The squash and zucchini are bursting out of the ground. I wish I had more space.
The tomatoes are finally a few inches high. The peppers are barely popping up, but I’m not sure that’s unusual this early in the season.
In a couple more weeks, we’ll be sure what’s a vegetable and what’s a weed and we’ll clean the beds up a bit.
By sowing my seeds in such a haphazard way, I’m knowingly handicapping seed survival, but it’s just so much easier than growing seedlings in containers and transplanting them to the garden later. Gardening is a hobby. I think hobbies should be more fun than work. If it’s the other way around, it’s just a second job that pays very little.
I was inspired by what saw on the recent Urban Farm Tour. I may build some garden boxes on wheels (kind of like a garden train) that I can move around in the yard to maximize production and minimize further damage to my lawn.
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