The Good Life – March-April 2024

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6 | THE GOOD LIFE WRITTEN BY: JEFFREY MILLER
The first step in a successful garden is deciding what is going to be planted. Even the mildest of winters has me looking towards spring. Daydreams of sunshine, warm soil and growing plants consume my thoughts during the late winter. Fortunately, planning and preparation at this time of year can pay dividends come summer. What to Plant? The first step in a successful garden is deciding what is going to be planted. It seems like I get a new seed and garden catalog nearly daily in my mailbox, and it pays to sit down and leaf through each one. There are some yearly standbys that my family has found that they like best. Long ago I decided bush beans weren’t for me, as I got tired of bending over and picking the low hanging beans. Instead, I put up a pair of sheep wire trellis for two rows of pole beans. Pole beans grow up and vine around the wire, making picking a breeze. In years past, I had grown Blue Lake pole beans exclusively. However, last year I decided to compare them to Seychelles pole beans and discovered they grew well and had a better flavor. This year I’ll be ordering more of those! My family eats a lot of potatoes, so each year I plant nearly 160 hills. Yukon Gold is the mainstay, but I’ll also put in reds and whites as well. I ordered my seed potatoes through the mail last year, and on planting day I ended up running short by ten seed spuds. Luckily, I hadn’t cleaned out the potato storage rack in the basement. Some of the spuds in storage had started to grow eyes, and it was a piece of cake to split the potatoes and finish my planting. Order your seeds early, to make sure that they arrive in plenty of time for planting. Store them in a cool, dark place until planting day. Seeds can also be saved from season to season in the same manner. I’ve recently started seed saving. Seed saving is the process of harvesting mature fruits and removing the viable seed to plant the next year. In particular, there is an okra variety that is very difficult to find from seed houses. If it works, I’ll just keep a stash of viable seeds each year to alleviate the need to find the seeds. After all, I urbantoadmedia.com | 7
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