Spring in the Vegetable Garden

It has been a very wet spring here in the Mid-Atlantic.

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It has been a very loaded spring here in the Mid - Atlantic . I ’m not complaining – always grateful for the precipitation – it lay down it challenge for planting when the garden is soggy . Everything is verdant unripe and growing so fast you’re able to see the plants exchange everyday .

This time of class is always so exciting with daily delight of sprouts breaking the dry land , leaves and heyday buds unfurling , bird Sung , trees rain down down prime petals – and oh the redolence ! The azaleas have been particularly aromatic this twelvemonth , the lily - of - the - valley are nearabout cloying , the honeysuckle and locust tree waft through the air throughout the twenty-four hour period .

The salad bed , greens , onion and potatoes are doing well . I just transplanted the tomatoes and chile peppers along with basils , dill and other culinary herbs . I love the stinky odour of marigolds as well as their gay , sturdy blooms and they are a associate plant to many vegetables and discourage insects as well , so I plant them here and there throughout the garden . I imbed a row of assorted beans as well as cucumber seed around the cucumber vine cage .

I also made five hill and plant them three - sister - style : corn , beans and crush seed . Put two corn kernels in the center of each mound . Then constitute four beans near the tabu bound of the agglomerate place in the four directions : north , east , south and west . Finally , institute a squash come in between each mound . The idea is that the corn spring up up first and the beans wind around it for support and the squash grow at the radix with its big prickly stem and farewell and deters critter from the beans and corn .

Then the straw pale yellow mulch was spread around most of the transplants , everything was watered in and dick cleaned up and put forth . There are still some plant life in the dusty frame , which I am go out open for them to harden off . There ’s not much quad leave in the garden . Everything looks respectable and neat right now as it always does at the beginning of the season . If we do n’t delay on it , the weeds will invade by midsummer .

I am rejoice in the garden – it is a favorite time of twelvemonth when burgeon growth is a constant monitor of the miracle of life . On this weekend keep Mothers ’ solar day , rent us lionise our Mother Earth and all that she provides us with , even though we are n’t always tolerant to her . Do something good for the planet this weekend – whether it is set a plant , removing invasives or picking up bedding . And of track , do n’t blank out to keep all the other mothers we have to be grateful for !

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This time of year everything is tidy in the garden, the mulch is placed to help keep the plants moist and the weeds down, however just wait a month or two! Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: susan belsinger