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Sad GroVid22 Days Ahead!


Every year, the garden starts out full of such Hope and Promise! January is the excitement of pouring over seed catalogs, and then, buying seeds! The seeds being sown in February brings the first blooms of GREEN, after a long cold winter. March is a time of actually getting into the garden outside, as I start planting Potato Starts, and then later, April and May is when transplants happen...

Above: Sad, empty Fabric Grow Bags, as I remove old grown, and retire the soil to a compost heap for the late fall and winter.


Late spring and early summer is the first of the fruits and vegetables, arriving. Lots of excitement as first meals from fresh vegetables happen. But not as amazing, this year.


Perhaps the past few years really lulled me into a false sense of accomplishment. This year's Drought has reduced my harvest to about one third of past years.



Above: Two of three remaining Potato plantings are getting harvested (top and Bottom pots)
Below: The middle pot remains, alone, of the Potato Plantings


It's not exciting, for sure... a simple pile of dirt for now. under that soil is the cuttings of the squash, potato, zucchini, and red broccoli, plus some tomato plants that have died back. Many small branches that have fallen, some random weeds, and a couple layers of green grass clippings. All of the items are mixed, alternating, and layered. This helps to promote good compost.

There are many schools of thought: 30 to 1 Brown to Green by weight. 50-50% mix, turn daily, turn weekly, turn, turn turn, for every season.... wait, that's different. Compost happens with any growing thing. Eventually. Period. If it grows, it will eventually turn back to soil.


It only remains to see HOW FAST something breaks down into good compost. For me, I take the soil from my containers, and put it into my compost pile, and mix with other green - Nitrogen (live plants, grass, etc) and brown - Carbon (dead leaves, dead sticks, shredded clean cardboard, etc) the magic happens over time. For me, late fall, into winter is the key to letting my soil rejuvenate, for use in the spring. I'll add that compost to the bottom third to half of each container in spring... and begin anew!

Sure, we're coming to the end of the GroVid22 Gardens, but, coming in a few short months, GroVid23!

Show me your garden!
Leave me a comment, below... and a link to your garden!

It's time to take control of your own food supply,
your own health and your own lives.

The GroVid22 Challenge:
Grow Your OWN is not just a simple short challenge,
it's about taking control of your future!

Happy New Planting and Cheers,
BluefinStudios

All Photos by Bluefin Studios unless specified.




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GroVid is dead. Long live GroVid. Hard to maintain the hope and good feelings of spring in the fall. But as you said so well everything turns. And everything returns.

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The garden indeed looks somewhat desolate, but better times will come.
We have just freed up some space in our backyard to grow some vegetables ourselves.
I hope to learn a lot from other 'farmers' on here.

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we've had a long, dry summer, and are now into fall, so, no more outdoor plantings. Maybe will be doing some indoor planting, and of course, sowing seeds come February, for the garden this coming spring.

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Were in the same season here (The Netherlands). We only started planting vegetables after summer. Not the best time to start, but well see.
I see the beetroot, cauliflower and carrots showing up already.

What do you grow inside?
That might be an option for me too 😊

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Funny how nature keeps reminding us not to take things for granted. Get used to abundance and along comes drought to remind who is in charge eh?

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EXACTLY... it's a little reminder... Humility in ALL THINGS, Mr. Green Thumb.

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