Seed Catalogs 2012

by Becky Elmuccio on February 22, 2012

Let the brainstorming and browsing begin! I am very excited for our garden this year. Tomato is big enough that she can help water and pick the food. She knows all of the names for the foods that we like to grow, so I can’t wait to show her the process of growing our own food. I need to think back through what organic foods I can get at the farmers’ markets in our area and then decide what I want to grow.

We also have some work that we are doing on our garage and outside windows and we need to check for lead paint (we have an older home) before we start the work. That way, we can follow the best and safest practices for removing the old paint and putting on the new paint so that it does not damage our soil. I’ll be making a trip to our Rutgers Cooperative Extenstion office in order to pick up a soil testing kit to check for any lead levels in our current garden spaces. If you need more information about how to test your own soil, click on this PDF link for a great article from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension office. More information is also available at this link, which lists all of the services for which soil testing can be done. If you are not in New Jersey, simply google your state extension office and see what they have to offer. I find them to be invaluable when learning about gardening!

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