Thursday, April 30, 2009

My Gardening experience

Wow!!! I love to have my own vegetables. I had a garden the other year and I want to have another one this year. Actually I already planted some vegetables seed but I'm wondering why until now there's nothing in there yet? It is almost a month that I planted the seeds. Well, anyway it says in the pack, it will grow in 3 weeks. I am still waiting.

Gardening in US is very different from the Philippines. In there, we can have a garden whole year round but here? we have to wait for the spring and summer and it must not go beyond that climate because the plant will be ruined by frost in the fall. In the Philippines? we can have a garden anytime of the year. And another thing is that, there are lots of animals here that eat my plants in the garden. There are deer, raccoons, squirrel and wild turkey. They give me head ache last year that I did not post through my garden. I was not able to harvest anything from my garden last year. The other year was good but not last year.

This year, I will do something to scare these animals away from my garden. Some of my friends said, I can use perfume, mothballs, cans, hair and even urine. hahaha... that's funny. But they said, the deer will not go near the smell of urine. This is the first time I heard that.. maybe because there is no deer in the Philippines near I live. But anyway, I will try to do something to scare them away. I love to have my garden blooming with fresh vegetables. I am now excited.