Comments on: Getting Kids Involved in Gardening

By: Pepe

Pepe — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 21:51:48 +0000

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By: Scoops

Scoops — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:15:36 +0000

In reply to Julia. So happy for you, Julia, gardening is the best, even if you just have a little space for it. Glad you are making the effort.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:13:44 +0000

Love to see a home/decor blogger talking about climate change–so many are silent and the disconnect is disconcerting!

I’ve got a teeny space for gardening (containers, maybe 9 sq ft) but I’m enjoying getting my seeds and bulbs started. So far just my flowers–I have such limited space for starting that what I can get as seedlings, I will.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:54:41 +0000

In reply to Rachel. Oh man, that is so, so awesome! You're going to love your gardens. So this is what I can tell you about the weeds. Are your beds going to be deep? Mine are 16" or so and I just covered up all the grass with soil. It's too much dirt for it to grow through. Around the edge of my garden I made a bed of mulch and I used newspaper to keep the weeds down and it worked. I really didn't think it was going to. I used a lot of paper though. I grabbed a bunch of city pages and would use half the magazine for an entire layer. So lay it on thick. I also used a lawn edger to tuck the paper up tight to the raised beds. You can see some pics over here too.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:49:38 +0000

In reply to Lori. Oh man, that makes me so happy that you like these posts and thanks for commenting on the boys, I think they're pretty cute too.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:02:20 +0000

Your gardening posts are the best! I’m about to get my 4 raised beds ready across the river in St. Paul, maybe this weekend or next if the weather is cooperative. Do you do anything to prevent weeds? Pinterest kept telling me to try a newspaper weed barrier, so I might do that. Can’t wait to follow along as your garden grows!

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:21:28 +0000

I *live* for your gardening posts. Seriously, I had a really crazy addiction to them last year :). Excited to follow along this year. Also, you have two of the most adorable boys I’ve ever seen. I feel bad I’ve never gushed over them, cause I’m a mom and I like hearing how cool my kid is, ha.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:15:08 +0000

In reply to Sarah Z. Thanks, Sarah!

By: Scoops

Scoops — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:13:23 +0000

In reply to Stacey. Hey Stacey! Sounds like your garden center has a pretty good deal - go for it! I wish I could help with suggestions with your zone, but as you probably have assumed, I have no experience at all. I wish you this best of luck with it, sounds like a fun adventure. You're right, small is relative, it all depends where you live. A quarter of our yard is eaten up by our garage and we enclosed the parking space last year to have more room for the kids to play.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:55:52 +0000

“Small city lot” HA! If only our lot could be as “small” as yours! One of the first things we did after buying our place was to install a fence: one 11′ section connected to a 60′ section. That’s my entire yard, yo. We don’t even have space for a driveway (or other place to park). It’s all relative.
Since I am only used to gardening in zones 8 and 9, I’m going to sit down with a landscaper to help me plan the bits of yard we’re going to garden. The local garden center has a deal where you pay $100 for a conference with their master landscaper and he plans as little or as much as you want. At the end they give you a $50 gift card, so it’s a pretty good deal. Everything I grew in my yard in Texas is considered a house plant here, so I’m not sure where to even begin.

By: Sarah Z

Sarah Z — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:48:14 +0000

Great information! Thanks for sharing.

By: Scoops

Scoops — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:26:37 +0000

In reply to meghanssj.

Hey Megan – I think I’d try the soil testing again next year just to see, but it might just be too much information for me. I don’t even know how I should be amending the soil if there was too much phosphorus, ya know? Why fix what’s not broke? Glad to hear it comes across as funny, sometimes I just don’t know! I am always a bit jealous of all your gardening space, it sounds wonderful. I just got my neighbor to build 90 square feet of raised beds on the side of his house, I’ll have to share on the blog sometime. I’m going to be gardening in his space too, I’m sure.

By: meghanssj

meghanssj — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:14:01 +0000

I love this!! I am also very very excited to get back into my 96 square feet of raised bed love. Interesting to know that soil testing was a fail. Everywhere you read, its all “get your soil tested! get your soil tested!!” and so I was thinking about it, but maybe I won’t bother. Throwing in some new compost and manure seems to do the trick. I LOL’d at your hilarity about Finn’s Hunter S. Thompson-esque Hawaiin shirt, as compared to him looking like the son of a blogger. That was hilarious! Cheers to being in the yard!!