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Spring has sprung, the sun is out for longer and the cold dark winter mornings are forgotten. Thoughts turn to the garden and all the plans you had to improve the backyard and “all that extra time you were going to enjoy it while the evenings were light and warm” come flooding back. Every year I find myself making that promise. I don’t just want a summer of mowing the lawn. Backyards are so much more than a perfectly cut piece of grass!

While musing on your grand plans for the summer, thoughts cross your mind about establishing a veggie garden. Its been on the agenda for years but you’re caught as to where to build it or what to grow, or you have flashbacks to when you tried growing some seeds years ago, none of them grew and so you gave up. I would give up to, all that excitement and exprectation of going to the nursery and buying all the right equipment those feelings of pride that you are going to grow, care and nurture something – only to be dashed as nothing happens. (Never set out to grow your own veggies through buying seeds, always buy established seedlings for a nursery, this way all the hard work has been done for you!). Read the rest of this entry »