Delouse your garden with ladybugs

On a warm spring day, I was pleasantly surprised by my first lady bug sighting of this year. Ladybugs are considered lucky in many cultures, and no wonder! These little lucky miracles protect our plants form aphids. 

Don’t let their cute as a button looks deceive you, ladybugs are ferocious predators. A single ladybug can eat over a hundred aphids a day!

How to grow awesome strawberries

 In my little garden I have a square meter raised bed which I filled with some of my favorite summer fruit; strawberries! Oh the joy of a fresh picked strawberry on a warm summer day. And strawberry jam. And strawberry tart. And strawberries for desert. Yes I love strawberries.

I bought some strawberries at the start of spring last year, and didn’t get any strawberries of them. I was so sad and blamed my poor gardening skills, until I learned that strawberries usually need a year to settle.

In my ‘oh why art thou not growing’ quest I found some more very useful tips. I am sharing my top 5 with you today.

Finally getting started

After a visit to my local gardening store I was very impatient to start up some seeds and get the growing action started. 

 

My list of mandatory vegetables

My master plan is finally unfolding (insert evil laughter). My garden plan is ready! I took all the mandatory vegetables listed in Practical Self sufficiency and made a scheme to remind me when to sow, when to plant and when to harvest. The list is as follows:

Books for planning my garden

So the last couple of days I have been planning my garden. I've had a lot of help from my gardening books:

Growing more happiness

In my quest to a more wholesome happy life I have set some goals for myself. One of those is growing my own food. I have been growing some food for the last two years and I would love to eventually grow all my own vegetables and fruits.

I have a lot of reasons for this wish. The most important reasons are:

The road to happiness

Lately I have become aware of a growing discontentment. My life feels like a series of chores, tasks and jobs to get done. Honestly, sometimes it feels like my only goal in life is to make money. Now before you start thinking I am a greedy person, let me explain why I feel this way.