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Joy of Medina County Magazine | December 2021
HOME AND GARDEN: DIG IT!
Think about how deep the vegetable Best Edible Plants will grow when deciding on a dish for Indoor Gardening or pot size. column and photos by Michelle Riley Understanding that December, months after the garden has been put to rest and cool season crops months before you will get to dance through it once again, such as lettuce, leaves you with a sense of space. Swiss chard, This space can sometimes feel as an unfulfilled craving. The kohlrabi, kale, and extent of the cravings may range from one extreme to another. spinach like cooler For example, a mild craving may nudge you to look at pictures temperatures, of plants for moments or possibly hours, while making encourages you to meticulous notes on who or what this specimen is and where its place them in a perfect new home will be in the garden. cooler spot in the You may even lament over a plant that did your garden wrong home, while also this past season, insulted your sense of gardening, and made its offering them four presence unbearable. to six hours of Swiss chard Note-making eases your gardening mind and gives you a sunlight. center, a foundation in which you can draw upon to create the Did you know, a simple desk lamp with a sunlight bulb is best garden yet this coming year. sufficient? Journal these experiences, they will help your garden grow. Snow may be falling soon, are you starting to have garden Some may tell you to cure this craving by visiting the local withdrawal? Need a quick fix? Leafy lettuce offers the quickest grocery, grabbing the nearest succulent, purchasing it, lovingly return on labor. naming it Fred and placing it by your reading chair. Depending where you are on the craving spectrum, Fred may work. Michelle Riley is a local horticulturist, landscape designer, and Would it not be more exhilarating to grow something from consultant. She is the founder of the gardening subscription seed? service, https://theplantmall.com/; https:// One of the easiest cures to fill that space between fall and michellerileyhorticulturist.com ; and https://neohiogarden.com spring is to grow something. With as little as a paper cup and a She also is the president of All About You Signature Landscape bit of soil you can grow leafy lettuce quite easily. A plastic bowl Design, Inc. Riley can be contacted at widens your horizons and your lettuce crop. Try radishes, Info@MichelleRileyHorticulturist.com or by calling 234-678onions or even carrots in a deeper dish. 8266.
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