My back hurts, my arm pain and I'm sunburned. With the warming temperatures favorable for germination of seeds, the farmer each of us is willing to take the spade in hand and test the waters hortacultural. I plant a garden this year and is a hard work.

Planting and weeding a garden is not for the faint of heart, or maybe it is. Part of my rehabilitation from a recent heart surgery, is the exercise that I working my little piece of land. My doctor gave me permission to do this if I did not grow broccoli. He says there is enough of this plant in the world already.

My garden owned by a friend, mine was a line of trees, almost all of the shadows and sunless The property is large, but not as gigantic as it was before the War calendar as one of the largest plantations of Alabama, covering thousands of hectares.

While I worked the floor, two fireplaces look at the old broken shells that upon heating the homes of settlers in the old plantation. A few of these stone markers, no grain of my break in the surface, knowing that they are in the presence of history.

There are stages in developing a garden and all the work required. Fortunately, the land has been plowed a couple of weeks before I started my work, so it did not break the ground. Here are the steps you use to plant my garden:

When the soil is plowed straight lines. It is a sin in the south have lines through them. My lines are straight as an arrow flies. I did this by placing a string of bright red nylon between two items that I stuck in the ground on both sides the garden.

Dig a furrow with a hoe along the nylon thread. Sprinkle the fertilizer in the furrow, then mixing soils and fertilizers, in collaboration with the hoe. 13-13-13 mix I use for my garden. The trick is to pour the correct amount in the slot, too little and the plants will not leave the land and flourish. Too much and the plants will burn when escaping from the earth.

Sow the seeds in the furrow, about 4 inches apart. I disagree with this rule very well. I planted a lot of seeds in the row and thin so to respond if all germinate, one in four do not.

The instructions on seed packets to show us precisely how the depth and distance from plant seeds. I have great difficulty with this step. It is difficult to spread only ½ inches of soil over the seeds. A packet says a corn plant and a quarter inches deep. Do not worry about that detail. It's not like someone came up behind me with a tape measure.

Much of my time off. , Between the pauses that grow corn, peas, purple hull, and pumpkin seeds and watermelon. I put tomato and pepper in the holes dug as I followed the red string.

Spread mulch on the outcome of the tomato plants in the fruit more bigger and bigger because the mulch keeps it from drying water table as fast as you would normally. mulch around the leaves of pepper plants do not work for me because they wither and die. I do not know why that happens, but he did.

The joys of gardening are just beginning for me. When the peas, corn and tomatoes have started to grow, the insects were discovered. There is much evidence of insecticides on the market.

You can choose one of these bugs to kill or you can plant flowers like daisies and marigolds. I never worked well, but add a touch of class to the garden.

Fortunately, something to buy or plants will kill the insects in my pumpkin, which appear to be in serious danger of each hole goes. When he won the battle of insects, weeds are more than run my little corner of paradise of horticulture.

Gardening requires a lot of effort, but the work I put in my garden have not been in vain if I go the growing season, without another heart attack.

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