Gardening Hyper Drive - A to Z Fail

I will definitely have to create my posts for the A to Z Challenge ahead of time next year. My gardening has completely taken up my time so that I haven't had much or any time for the challenge or anything else for that matter.

Here are a few things I've been doing this month.

Sowing seeds and potting up seedlings as I try to keep them from drowning in all the rain we've had lately. Moving all of them back and forth, in and out of the sun and rain.

Digging a trench to help with flooding on the patio although in the end, it didn't help that much. Still trying to figure out how to keep it from flooding.

Fun watching my Sweet Potato slips growing.

Transplanting into their containers.

And so much more gardening that's happened and so much more to go! Trying to get my patio garden beautified by Thursday for a lovely family BBQ.

I'll keep you posted, hopefully more frequently as to how my garden grows!

Morgan Dragonwillow is a poet, foodie, and urban gardener (zone 7b) using a pen, shovel, and ladle to create a better world. 

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Seed Swap and the GardenChat group

I attended #GardenChat for the first time on Monday night. Unfortunately I only caught the last few minutes but it was enough for me to know that I want to attend again next week. They seem to be a lovely group of gardeners from various backgrounds that are helpful and generous with their gardening advise.

One of the participants that I met, Amy Hill @MHenryMitchell, was inspired by the chat about tomatoes and has decided to do a Seed Swap. This is something new for me but if you've been following along you know I've been trying to find gardeners that would like to exchange seeds, not because I'm lacking in seed (although there is still a lot that I want), because I went a little overboard on buying seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and want to share them with others.

Beauty and the Bugs - Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy

Photo by Elizabeth Famellos

I didn't have much interest in growing flowers in my veggie garden. I only wanted veggies because I could and would enjoy eating them. Flowers I thought just took up space that could be better used for my urban gardening efforts for growing tomatoes, basil, sugar snaps, etc.

I then discovered edible flowers. I wasn't sure about eating an edible flower, that just sounds weird. Supposedly they can be quite good. Yes of course I'm going to have to try some.

Red Worms, Seedlings, Oh My!

You never have enough good quality healthy soil when urban gardening. To make matters worse, I live in Georgia and if you know anything about Georgia it is almost all red clay. I had to do something or I was going to be throwing away money every year on soil and soil amendments for my veggie garden. I decided to start a red worm composting bin but it seemed I could only get them through the mail.