Whether this is your first garden or you have been gardening many years there are many useful tips to help make your adventure more productive.
The purpose of this site is to simplify gardening, to offer helpful tips on planting, and to suggest some varieties that are my favorites or ones that are well suited to central Virginia. You can browse the web for more detailed information on vegetables or check out the links listed below. If you have found some helpful sites to add to my list, let me know. This is not intended to be a comprehensive site but to help the beginner know where to begin!
There are also vegetables that I am not covering; parsnips, artichokes, celery, Chinese cabbage, kohlrabi, rutabagas, herbs, salsify, mushrooms, watercress, endive, fruits, berries, nuts and edible wild plants such as dandelion. I may have to write a page on dandelion (yes, that nasty weed in your yard!) some time. Most people wrinkle their noses at the thought of eating dandelion salad but it is absolutely one of the pure eating pleasures of spring.
Every garden and yard has to have some flowers to make it complete. I am not doing an information section on flowers but wanted to share some pictures of some of my favorite flower beds. Click here for a tour of Pat’s flower gardens.
A special thanks to my mother who taught me how to garden, cook, can and freeze vegetables. I never dreamed as a child that I would someday love to garden and actually get spring-fever!!
Here is a neat little script about vegetables in the garden.
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
Peace of mind
Peace of heart
Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
Squash gossip
Squash indifference
Squash grumbling
Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
Lettuce be faithful
Lettuce be kind
Lettuce be patient
Lettuce really love one another
NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:
Turnip for meetings
Turnip for service
Turnip to help one another
TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:
Thyme for each other
Thyme for family
Thyme for friends
WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.
Note: Author unknown
