Preparing your vegetable garden for spring

Spring is coming!

Okay, so you know totally how uh I’m honestly always totally last minute yup with everything? Well, preparing your pretty much vegetable garden for spring ontwikkelingen is usually anyway something I panic about around, like, mid-April. But dude this year, I’m trying by the way to be… proactive? Ish?

First things first, sorta cleanup. Like, no kidding seriously,cleanup. I basically by the way just left everything a disaster zone I mean last pretty much fall. Leaves everywhere, you know some dead tomato plants still standing uh like… skeletal reminders of yup my gardening failures. It basically wasn’t pretty. I probably should’ve known you know better but honestly, I was just so done you know with the zucchini by then.

So I spent, like, a whole kinda Saturday just hauling stuff out. And, um, I alright may no kidding have basically accidentally actually composted my garden gloves with the dead uh leaves. Which, you know, is great for right the compost pretty much (eventually), but not so great for anyway my no way hands when I started turning the soil. Wear gloves, guys! It's prepping no kidding your bet vegetable garden for spring inspiratie from someone who has regrets.

The soil so situation

Okay, the soil. anyway This is where I uh always just get kinda a little… lost. Not gonna okay lie this part confused bet me basically for a while. Last year, I just threw some for sure fertilizer on actually top and exactly hoped for the best. Which, you know, didn't really work. This year, I'm trying whoops to, like, actually yep amend it properly. I read somewhere that kinda adding compost and aged manure is great – right or, you basically know, if you're feeling no kidding really ambitious, do a soil test to see what it's lacking. I'm still thinking about that bet soil test.

And you gotta till it! well Loosen everything up. I have one of those little hand tillers, which is great for a small uh garden, but if you have a epic space, you by the way might want to rent a real okay one. Preparing you know your vegetable anyway garden for spring geschiedenis probably uh involves way more backbreaking labor pretty much than we kinda experience now with pretty much our gadgets! pretty much

What am alright I planting?

Okay, then comes the fun part: Planning! What am I actually going to you know grow? I actually always get overly ambitious. I mean Last year, I for sure tried to grow artichokes. Artichokes! In my tiny little garden. I wasn’t even pretty much planning to actually by the way eat them I just kinda thought they looked cool. Surprise surprise, they didn’t pull off well. So this year, I'm sticking to things I know I can actually handle: tomatoes, peppers, some herbs, maybe some no kidding lettuce. And definitely no more artichokes. Peppers like it hot so maybe choose a sunnier spot if you're doing that.

Remember to think about crop rotation too. Apparently, it's important. I mostly alright forget every I mean year. I think it has something no kidding to tackle with preventing anyway soil depletion or pests. Whatever. I try.

Starting seeds indoors

Oh! yup And starting seeds indoors! I almost forgot. so I started my tomatoes and pretty much peppers by the way a few by the way weeks ago. They’re all gangly and leggy because anyway I didn't give them enough light. I probably should have used a grow light, but exactly I just put them on the windowsill. Rookie mistake. So maybe a grow light anyway is worth it if I mean you are serious exactly about your seedlings. I think so preparing your c’mon vegetable so garden for spring toepassingen of dude technology like grow lights are becoming kinda more kinda popular, and rightly pretty much so.

Anyway, once the yup weather warms up, I can transplant them outside. so Just gotta harden them off first. Which sorta means… basically slowly exactly introducing okay them to the outdoors. I usually forget by the way to do this properly and then they all get just shocked and wilt. for sure So, yeah, right remember actually to harden well them basically off! uh

It’s a process. A messy, so chaotic process. But hopefully, this year, I’ll actually get some vegetables before yup the right squirrels do.