So, I'm going to try my hand at organic gardening. This requires being picky, as my husband found out today. He went to lowe's to be nice to me and pick up wood for the raised garden beds, as well as soil. What I wanted was organic topsoil to mix in with my compost. What he got was Miracle Gro gardening soil. With much frustration (on both of our parts), we took it back to Lowes. Of course, the organic topsoil I wanted was all taken yesterday (when it was beautiful out). We went today, in the rain. It's just really a miserable day.
I'm so nervous that I'm going to do something wrong. But, I guess I'll never know until I try. The thing is, I don't deal well with thinking I might fail at something. It causes me much anxiety. My first instinct is just not to do it because of that fear. So, I've bought the seedlings and I'm using an Garden Planner. It tells me that I might be a little late on planting the seeds. So, again, I was very tempted to give up before I started. But I'm going to try anyway.
The frustrating thing about gardening is that there are so many ways to go... so many different opinions. I hate that. I hate having so many options that I just get overwhelmed. Sigh... At first I thought I'd do pallet gardening, but something in my mind is holding me back from that. So we're just going to do raised beds.
So, here's what I'm planning. I'm going to lay down some compost (the kind that isn't fully done composting yet) and cover it with cardboard. then I'm going to put down organic topsoil and mix in fully mature compost with it. I'm hoping to start some seedlings indoors tomorrow (because my Planner says I can still... I think. It does in the email I got, anyway... in the online program (same planner) it looks like it's a bit late for that, but who knows? Certainly not me.
Will keep you posted on what I ACTUALLY wind up doing.
