Thought about this today while I was out in the garden...like most days, I suppose.
I thought it might be fun for us to share our favorites.
My biggest mistake when beginning a veggie garden for the first time was in thinking that it had to
look perfect.
First, I basically starved the garden so weeds wouldn't grow faster than I could keep up with them.
Then, I spent countless hours and a huge amount of effort into digging out each and every weed that happened to show itself - even the big ones that somehow managed to keep on growing over the course of winter's non-gardening months. I expected that weed-free meant just that, not one weed in sight.
Then, because I had nothing handy to mulch with, I spent even more time and effort into bringing
in mulching materials.
What I've since learned is, to embrace those faster-growing, and oftentimes larger-leaved bullies and put them to good use.
Large leaf plants get torn off and used as a mulch base around the plants I want to grow. Then the smaller ones that I've pulled out by the roots get laid out thinly on top of these, so they don't re-root but instead dry out and die.
No more time, effort or cash invested in obtaining mulch!
I just tear, pull and toss a few every time I venture into the gardens. Easy.
This is how I grow my fruiting vines...now.
Of course, I do try to limit the use of seed bearing weeds around them, but weeds will happen....regardless.
What are some of your memorably mistaken moments?
