All About Gardening

God created many varieties of fruits. Well, if you need a suggestion to choose which one you should grow in your garden, the melon would be one of interesting alternative. Most melons will need fertile soil and abundant heat in order to arrive at their most perfectly delicious state. Growing melons has a great advantage because they can ripen on the vine, be picked and eaten at their peak season.

For you who like an instant melon instead growing them in your garden, there are some tips you may want to consider before purchasing one. Should you have to buy melons at a farmer’s market or store then the test of all melons except for watermelon is not “thumping” or pushing in on the stem end, but smelling. If they smell like a melon then they are ripe. If they do not, they are not ripe, but will probably be in 2 to 4 days when left at room temperature. Most people put their melons in the refrigerator. However, some people like their melon at room temperature because the flavor is just more flavor to them at room temperature.

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Have you ever heard of it? It’s not some champion on an exclusive gardening festival or anything like that. Usually the older people will easier to recall this project name. For those of you to young to remember Victory Gardens they were called war garden and food gardens for defense during WWI & WWII and they were planted with vegetables, fruit and herbs at private residences in the US, Canada and UK to reduce the pressure on the public food supply caused by the war effort. They not only, indirectly, aided their war effort, they were a great civil morale booster and gardeners made victory gardens part of daily life on the home front of each country.

Maybe you are wondering if this old age projects are convenient to be implemented in this era. Let’s think of advantage from building this kind of project on these days. You will have better fresh produce. You will have outside activity. You will have a family project. You will be teaching your children something. You will be having quality time with your family. You will have exercise. You will have remade a connection with the planet and mother earth. You may or may not be reducing your food budget, but your food will taste better. You may even learn how to do other things such as canning or preserving food.

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Are you a lazy person type? It doesn’t mean you need to give up the garden that you run. Here are most perfect gardening tips for a person like you.

1. The bucket
   You can purchase a garden tote that’s made of fabric and fits into a five-gallon bucket. It has loads of storage pockets and you can carry your trowel, pruning shears, garden gloves, seeds, a knife, popsicle sticks for marking plants. Keep a bag of bone meal in the large center of the bucket so it will be on hand when you plant bulbs or new plants.
2. Soaker hoses
   They work well and are more environmentally friendly. You just need to leave them in the garden all the time and only remove them to till up the soil, then put them right back. Soakers are a better way of watering your plants because wet leaves can lead to disease and mildew.
3. A mailbox
   If you too lazy to walk all the way back to the ‘Bucket’ in the barn, put up an old rural mailbox on a post in the middle of my perennial bed in the front. You can keep an extra pair of pruning shears, gloves and a hand trowel in it. Keep some mosquito repellant in the bucket and the mailbox is another good idea. Put decals or paint decorative designs on your mailbox if you want it to blend in more with your garden. (more…)