Gardening

There’s just something about wet knees and soaked toes that gets those internal juices flowing…

Is there anything that screams Spring more than that first visit to the garden with your boots being sucked half off your feet by the mud and that first kneel in the damp familiarity of your very own special “patch?”

My own visit has been postponed by a pesky, late snowfall. This was to be “the weekend”, and yesterday mother nature said nay with a four inch covering of white - but at least it is a most beautiful form of denial. I am hopeful that perhaps tomorrow (Easter Sunday) will provide enough melt off for at least a short walk about in the mud to see what is peeking up and what needs to be pulled, trimmed and in general tidied up.

Whether you are a 100% committed organic farmer, a weekend casual gardener, a certified master gardener, novice, pro or a “not yet started” gardener, it is our hope here at the rural independent that you will find us a credible and useful resource for your gardening wants and needs.

We intend to have a forum started in the near future that we hope will provide a visiting place for tips and advice from you, the experts on all topics related to gardening . Heck we might even generate some bragging and tall-tale conversations regarding those mammoth, 50 pound cucumbers and honeysuckle plants that reach to the heavens.

Please contact us with any ideas and suggestions to make this site more useful to you - for it is for you that this is written.

Please visit our other garden pages for gobs of information on seeds, composting, compost tea making instructions and equipment and gardening advice aplenty. Why, we even have an excellent page on moon gardening!

Welcome rural independents of the world. Now let’s get gardening!