No veggie garden for us this year :-(

[MuseRider]

We got it all started, the ground prepared and the peas in and then my husband became ill. He will be getting heart surgery this summer sometime so I am going to plan the time to enrich to soil and get it all ready for next year . It would be nice to be prepared ahead of planting time for once! I will continue to tend the flower gardens but a 2500 sq foot veggie garden is too much for me on top of everything else, and a new puppy .

So I will be living vicariously through you all and frequenting the farmers markets a lot this year. Happy gardening everyone. I hope the weather this year is good.

[ManyShadesOf]

1. that sounds like a great plan

I am in the ground for the first time this year, after years of container gardens, and it's exciting. Flowers on the tomatoes and eggplant today! Maybe you'll have time to look at catalgues too and dream your garden up.

I hope your husband does well.

[Denninmi]

2. You may want to consider a cover crop for the summer.

Something to keep the weeds down and enrich the soil. Buckwheat is a good summer cover crop, grows quickly and then dies. Makes a lot of biomass for green manure.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. I second this idea.

Buckwheat is a great summer cover for the reasons you stated -- and having something growing on that nice bed will technically be having a garden this year even if it's not the one Muse Rider had planned.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. How sad. Best wishes for your hubby

and I hope that he is up to gardening next year. I understand how hard it is to try to keep too much going at one time, and you are smart to decide not to stress yourself. Plant some clover in the garden this year! Clover is great for the soil.

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Here's to your hubby getting all well!

You might think of a winter garden. Broccoli and cauliflower and spinach will be great in September and through incredible freeze. Some nurseries carry some starts for them in the fall.

Good luck with everything.

[beac]

6. Sounds like you'll be doing plenty of

tending to growing things (your pup and your husband's healing heart) this summer. Looking forward to hearing about all three of you romping in next year's soil-enriched garden!

[Tsiyu]

7. I am sorry

There are some of us with that gardening DNA, I believe. If we can't plant much, we grieve about it. It's a feeling of going against nature or something - for me anyway.

Maybe this will cheer you up:



Made me laugh, since I've not done nearly all I planned to do yet at all.

Good vibes for the hubby's surgery, and enjoy taking a break.

[bvar22]

8. Sorry to hear about your husband.

Our thoughts are with you.

2nd the idea of Cover Crops.

Field Peas are easy, fix nitrogen in the soil,
require very little maintenance,
self weeding after they get started (they are thick and block sunlight for weeds),
thrive in drought and heat,
taste great (dried or fresh) and are easy to pick....or not.

Good Luck to You & Yours.

[uppityperson]

9. Aw muse, I hope he's doing ok. I left 1/4 of my garden fallow this yr, could never get around to

weeding it so am piling cardboard on it instead. Sometimes it is ok to not plant it.

Best wishes to you, your hubby and puppy.