Amazing secret for new gardeners

[hoodat]

Beginning gardeners often have the idea that you have to really work at it to grow veggies. For the first time ever I'll reveal the great secret. Veggies WANT to grow and be healthy and they'll do it without a lot of fuss so long as the nutrients are in the soil and they don't get too dry. I recently spent three months in the hospital and rehab. My garden got no tending at all. When I came home the garden was overgrown with head high weeds but pulling them aside I found nice firm heads of cabbage , huge kale and thick rows of collards.
I don't recommend not caring for your garden like that. I would have had even more and better veggies had I been home to do some watering and weeding but there is no need to go overboard. Relax and just let the veggies do their thing. They know what to do.

 

[so lucky]

Hey! Don't give away the trade secrets! Now you are making it look like anybody can garden. We won't feel special anymore.

 

[lesa]

After 3 months, that is pretty amazing! I am glad you found a few things to nibble on, while you were pulling those weeds! I always say the same thing, Hoodat- plants want to grow, they don't really need too much help to do it....

 

[ninnymary]

Hoodat, you are so right. I think I over baby my plants and they barely do well. On the other hand, my neighbor neglects her's and I think they do better than mine! Life is so unfair! But it's so hard for me to ease off.

Mary

 

[897tgigvib]

Yep, at th base of it, the plants grow themselves...

Some even plant themselves

 

[bobm]

I would hazard to guess that ALL plants will replant themselves ... afterall what did all plants do for eons before man came along to cator to their every need ? :tools :watering :mow :weight

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Ah, so true Hoodat!

I've read in a book that we were suppossed to enjoy the garden. Tending it, but not toiling in it.

 

[cmom]

Getting ready to start our winter gardens.

 

[catjac1975]

My garden is large and often weeds can get away from me. There are many things that do well with some weeds shading their roots. I am harvesting my last wave of beautiful corn. They were perfectly weed free at about 2 feet tall. And that was the end of weeding. There is a tall light weight weed around the base of the corn and they do not mind a bit. Beans will withstand a light frost if they are surrounded by some weed growth. Pumpkins seem to thrive in a weedy environment as long as they are weeded when they are small plants.

 

[journey11]

Glad you still got something out of your garden to enjoy. In mine, I'd worry more about bugs than weeds.