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Growing Watermelons in a Container
To start, I cannot take credit for this particular project. My Mom actually defied my expectations when she started growing these watermelons. I thought there would be no way you could grow full sized watermelons in medium sized containers. Everyday I see that was wrong. She started from seeds, which admittedly I was never that successful at doing, and after a week they started to sprout. She was very much delighted when she saw her first baby sprout since she had never believed she could grow anything herself and she wanted to take a crack at this whole gardening thing with me. The soil used was regular potting soil. I…
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April – July Vegetable Garden Progress: The Beginner Gardener’s Journey
As we step into the summer months I wanted to wrap up the spring season by showing progress since I started my plants in April to the beginning of July. This is how my yard looked before I put in my spring plants too what it looks like now: I had been gardening for a couple years so we had this setup for awhile. But when this picture was taken these plants were probably leftover from winter and weren’t really being taken care of. You can see on the left side there is a sad old tomato plant just clinging for dear life, and there wasn’t really anything from the…
