Gardening with Margaret

When we arrived in Michigan (June 2017), I spent a lot of time in Margaret's garden. 


Now, I have what you call a black thumb instead of a green thumb. But after working in the Garden for a couple of hours I have moved up to a brown thumb-yay! 



One of the many things that I learned was that you have to plant asparagus 1 foot deep and keep on covering it with soil also it just grows straight up and it go's to about my thigh. I never knew that it just grew straight out of the ground with no attachments and that it grew so high!





 Margaret said that I was very good at pulling thistles (that were next to her cantaloupes patch). She planted some corn a couple weeks ago and there are little sprouts of corn.  I got to plant a lot of vegetables! Like beets, green beans and carrots. When we were planting the seeds I learned what a hoe was and a Rototiller. A rototiller is like a lawn mower except that it has 2 huge blades on the sides and what it is used for is if you have really dry dirt you push the rototiller around the garden and it refreshes the dirt so that if you're planting a bed you have nice soil. A hoe is used for patting dirt on the seed lines but if you are planting carrots you have to make sure that you don't put to much dirt on top cause then the carrots won't come up out of the ground.


I also didn't know that you had to cover your strawberries with hay so that it does not get a frostbite. When I went to Margret's she had strawberries that were really green but we came back a couple days later and we got to have fresh strawberries!  


When I started gardening with Margaret I knew almost nothing about gardening except that plants need sun and water. But now I know way more all thanks to Margaret.