Today is the day! It’s been over 80 degrees down here in Georgia for about a week now, with no signs of it cooling down. That means it is time for me to plant my garden and get some other yard work done. Please excuse me while I break from regular blogging to bring you a day of gardening. I’ll be updating my blog all day with my progress and lots of pictures! I’ll also be sharing tips and ideas so that you all can start your own gardens.
Just a quick disclaimer: This is only my second year in having a garden, so I am by no means an expert. So I can’t guarantee my recommendations will always be good, as I’m still learning and making mistakes. If you notice that I make a poor recommendation, please speak up! It’s the only way my readers and I will become better at gardening!
Will you be joining me today? Whether you are gardening today or just watching all the fun, let me know in the comment section! And of course, voice any questions or ideas you have as well!
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It’s too early for me to start planting outside yet but I am going to start my tomatoes seeds next week in containers.
I put out the cool weather veggies already into containers (spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, and peas). Also got my columnar apple trees planted as well
We started getting ours all ready as well, but then realized that next week I am going to be gone for six days and there will be no one to water it. Pondering if I should wait and get a late start or take a chance of no rain and plants dying….decisions, decisions.
.-= Jen@balancing Beauty and Bedlam´s last blog ..Tasty Tuesday – it’s all about you! =-.
My father is coming for a visit in two weeks and he’ll be helping me plant my 2nd garden this year. I plan on planting tomatoes, zucchini, and squash. I am contemplating hot peppers (for homemade salsa).
.-= Bethany´s last blog ..Easter Sunday =-.
Just a note, it is supposed to storm there in Georgia tonight or tomorrow. You may want to hold off the actual planting until after it blows through. Down here in Louisiana you have to watch these spring storms. They can downpour so quickly that they can wash the seeds off. Another option is to throw some pine straw over the seeds till the storm passes. Good luck! Everything has sprouted here already except the peas.
Yay! I hope your garden day went well
I only have a small (mostly shady) balcony on which to grow my plants (all in containers), but they are doing well so far. Lettuce, spinach and broccoli rabe are up. I also “winter sowed” dill, parsley, lavender, basil, pole beans and cilantro in covered plastic containers (mini-greenhouses). I planted 3 varieties of tomatoes and they just sprouted over the weekend – hurrah! It is so exciting to tend to and watch your garden grow. Can’t wait to read your updates and see the photos!
I found Mel Bartholomew’s All New Square Foot Gardening book at our local Dollar General for only $5. The pictures are in black and white and the pages are not glossy but that is about a $12 savings over the same book I bought at Lowe’s with full color pages pictures and glossy pages. I wish I had found the Dollar General store one first.
We are doing Square Foot Gardening this year and I just planted one 4×4 square on Easter.
Best of luck to everyone! I live in GA also and have been doing the square foot garden method for the last 3 years. The only thing was I didn’t see where you add fertilizer and it still needed it even with all the compost, etc. Scotts has some good organic fertilizer I’ve been using. I gave up on Squash and Zucchini because I keep having some kid of bug or creature kill it. I don’t want to use pesticides and the “natural” methods didn’t seem to work. This year I’m sticking to strawberries, onions, tomatoes and peppers. It’s a great way for little kids to learn the value of growing things yourself (if you can). I’ve noticed BJ’s and some of the home improvement stores are selling the above ground garden beds so you don’t have to build them yourself.
I’m starting my first container garden this year! I’m putting it all on our back deck and hoping they will get enough sun there. It’s been beautiful in NC, so I went to our local nursery and got tomato, green pepper, red pepper, and zuchinni plants…We’ll see how it goes this year. I do have a black thumb and past attempts at gardening have not gone well
Just wanted to put in my 2 cents lol…..Don’t be so hard on yourself about having a “black thumb” lol it takes time and energy and sometimes years
to figure out what plants you do well with, which you don’t, what plants do better in different parts of the garden and so on and so forth!! But it always exciting when you see you plants start to pop up!! So don’t get discouraged if things don’t pan out the way you had planned, even big companies have crop failures every year!! Just get a couple of good books on gardening to learn about you soil, the bugs that wage war against you, different diseases to look for, and the best ways to care for your precious little seedlings and plants and anyone who puts forth a little effort can grow at least 1 thing 
best of luck to all you gardeners!!
-Crystal
I would HIGHLY recommend the Mel B book (square foot gardening) I first got it from the library and renewed umpteen times…then Amazon.com’ed it to buy it because I loved it! This is my 2nd year gardening and everything in this book makes complete sense! There are tons of frugal tips in it, as well as tips for bug problems, trellis ideas (cheap!) and more. My favorite thing about it is the chart in the back that works for every state based on the frost free date of when to plant almost any veggie for summer and for fall crops! I have almost everything planted now, and just finished harvesting last year’s broccoli…now it is going to seed. (live in SC) Have fun, y’all! Garden on!
I’m going to be a 1st year gardener so I will join you as well! I’m in IL and we had a few snowflakes last night (after it being near 80 the day before).