this past weekend, i have cleaned up the garden and turned it over. i usually use the small tiller that i have, but since we had no frost at all, it was all done by hand.
each year around thanksgiving, i have my folks, and my sis and myself, save up all the egg shells from when they/i use any amount of egg's. this past weekend, i finally ground them into a powder and have about 7 pounds of it now.
this, along with bone meal, and blood meal will go into the individual holes dug for the tomatoes, Italian green peppers and eggplant, and basil and parsley i will be growing.
the egg shells are a natural way to get calcium (up to 95%), and after all, it is also a way to recycle something. i do not have a place to put up a compost pile right now, in fact, after all the re-configuring of my yard, i never had an area for a compost pile. (i had to make more parking spaces). my garden now is only 17' x 17', as i lost up to 15 extra feet of garden area.
today i was going to buy up some flowers for the border, but many were not available yet. I was able to buy "Easter" tulips and daffodils, which the bulbs will later be planted in the yard for next season, and every season there after. I wanted to get Geraniums today, but no go.
by the way, i hope you have a LOT of worms in your garden, which is yet another reason why i turned the garden over by hand, as it saves the much needed little guys that garden needs. worm casings are an organic fertilizer as well, and they make for tunnels for the water and air to help the plants grow.
putting marigolds around the garden will attract bee's, but then, many flowers will attract bee's. we need the bee's as well, last year, i had a good number of bee's, compared to years in the past.
good luck with the garden(s), all of you, as Mike said, nothing beats a fresh garden salad.>!!!
