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News on bale gardening

Tomorrow I am getting the straw to get ready to start bale gardening. This is going to be interesting for me. I’m glad I have a couple blogging buddies to conspire with, while starting this. I think I’m going to start out smaller and less complicated than my original plans. This is not to say, I couldn’t do what I planned. But I have a feeling that I’m starting a bit too late. It’s going to be trial and error here on my part.

I’ve read a great deal on the subject of bale gardening. In fact I have poured over everything I could get my hands on to read and every video to watch. There is such a vast amount of ideas out there and some are really more complex that it seems to me it has to be.  I’m going to go on intuition with a few ideas I picked up from what I read, and then see how this project all turns out. I’ve got the seeds I need, and that is another start, besides getting the bales.

Actually, since spring fever has been hitting me right and left lately, I am really excited about starting on all of my ideas for the house and garden!

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Grand daughters garden plans

My grand daughter who is nine called me this evening. My daughter had called earlier to ask me if I would be home so KK could ride the school bus to my house after school. She had to take my grandson to the dentist before school was out and didn’t want to take KK out of school early.  Of course it was fine by me, but I didn’t want KK riding the bus, her aunt and uncle ride home, as they were staying after school (at the high school) for computer lab and wouldn’t be able to make sure the bus driver stopped at our house. Plus this bus has a long route and doesn’t get the kids home until a lot later, so I’m going to go to the school when the kids are let out to pick her up.

Well, when my grand daughter called she told me that she had drawn out plans for her garden here. I wasn’t really surprised, since even when she was really young…not even in school yet…she would sort seed packets into the right categories, and knew the difference between annuals and perennials, and the herbs that could be eaten and the ones that couldn’t be. She knew which flowers and herbs could heal which ailment and actually she was pretty impressive with the way she caught on to all of what I told her at such an early age.

Now that she is nine, KK knows about root systems, various was to use herbs for healing, and which ones are to make tea out of, and the herbs that go with what foods to make them tasty. Not to mention the ones that are for decoration since they are poisonous. I’ve taught her how to make ointments for both people and animals. And the list goes on. In the winter she studies seed magazines, my books and all the garden magazines I get and had to her for the winter to read.  I can’t wait to see her garden plans tomorrow. She is so excited. I might just take her into town when I pick her up for school and get her some seedling trays and some packs of seeds to start. I’m looking forward to this!