Today is Earth Day 2012, and I am afraid I celebrated by sitting on my couch like a duck on her eggs. I did a brief watering and check on the seeds happily growing under shop lights in our spare bedroom. Then I gratefully used the rain and cool weather as an excuse to laze away...
 Yesterday I did some serious weeding in the garden. My friend spotted a problem the other day...my second garden, made from the area of the yard that used to have our pool on it, is in shadow for an uncomfortably long time..I did not follow my own advise, and observe the spot closely. Now the poor plants eagerly growing upstairs may not have a good spot to grow in! UG! There is more digging in my immediate future ! Ah, well. The melons will be worth it.

Here is my first garden report for the 2012 growing season!

Spring has sprung here in south jersey, and my garden has already yielded its first harvest! Very warm weather for winter,plus my crop covers worked to keep my kale alive ! Some lettuce, seeded from last fall's crop when I missed some seed heads, has sprung up too. The garlic I planted in the fall is doing well, and so are the blueberry bushes.
I sewed some new things this spring: carrots, radishes, and bush beans. Radishes are doing strong and the other two did not germinate well. Perhaps I'll try again in another week.

Of course, good weather for crops means good weather for weeds, and boy, are they going strong. Most are creeping in from the garden's edges....I am trying to cover all with cardboard and newspaper in hopes of gaining control of them (so far a losing battle).


I am on the hunt for a new gate for my garden...free if at all possible. Wish me luck...and get out and dig in the dirt!