Time to Plant Your Summer Garden

Depending on where you live, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere it is probably time for you to plant. If you are planning to plant many of the most popular garden vegetables, now is the time.

We started planting about 3 weeks ago, as soon as the threat of frost was past. I like to plant tomato plants and bell pepper plants instead of starting with seeds. It’s much easier, and you get to enjoy the fruit sooner. So we planted 5 different types of tomato plants and 4 bell pepper plants.

My daughters planted seeds for carrots, beets, green beans, sweet corn, squash and cucumbers. The beans and carrots are already growing, and we expect to see little plants for the rest coming up from the ground soon.

This weekend my husband is hoping to dig up more area in our backyard so we can plant more sweet corn as well as plant parsley. The parsley we had to start indoors, and the plants are already about 2 inches high.

This summer we plan to do something that we’ve never tried before - planting corn, carrots, and beets every few weeks so we get the fruit scattered throughout the summer instead of all at once.

I highly recommend using the Miracle Grow vegetable mix, scattered over your garden about every 2-3 months. It says on the bag how often to use it. We use the Miracle grow tree mix for our newly-planted and young trees as well.

We just transplanted 2 trees that started growing in our yard in areas that we didn’t want trees. Looking forward to some great shade for the chickens in a few years. We also planted a nectarine tree this spring. So now we have avocado, apricot, kumquat, lemon and nectarine trees in our backyard.

Planting a garden is part of the fun of spring. It’s a way we can enjoy a full summer of some of our favorite vegetables. With some vegetables going up in prices (in our area cucumber prices have risen a lot) it’s also a way to save money.

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