6 years ago (has it only been six years? Wow!), our initial “raised bed” garden was a fenced in area behind the shop. The beds were about 8″ tall 4′ by 4′, made with wood that we had milled from our trees and we used the square foot method. I loved my garden. I would throw a board across the top of two beds and sit there and weed, listen to the birds and the wind and just be happy. Time passed, life happened, and I went through a little time where my health was not great. I thought gardening had passed me by.
First let me pause a minute to take in the fact that I just typed, “Seed Starting Room”. Those are wonderful words. Also a fancy name for mechanical room but still, renaming it makes it seem exotic and extraordinary. Things have been going well since December. We have kept fungus gnats to a whisper by boiling water and using that to hydrate our potting soil and seed starting mixes. We only buy from inside the store which should help to keep bugs to a minimum while hurting the budget to the maximum. We have used mosquito pellets in the water and top water. Flowers were actually flowering, plants were luxurious and getting big, seed germination was high this year. Then on April 1st things took a turn.
