This year I am working towards becoming a full priestess in my circle of wonderful women witches. The first 2 Quarters were reading an studying the concept that plants are just as alive as people and that they can and do communicate.


This quarter in my studies, I am delving deeper into the mysteries of plant ecology. After having read and thought through the concept of plants as beings, the gaia hypothesis and such, I will now go a bit more hands on.

My plan is to build my first vegetable and herb garden. It will be entirely organic with no chemical pesticides. My husband already knows how my gardening time is my Zen time and so I will incorporate a sense of tranquility and an area where I can meditate and talk to my budding baby plants.
The first part of this plan is to choose an area for my garden. I though I had a spot picked out but after spending some time in the area, I realized it just wouldn't do. Then while walking around my new house, I found it. The perfect spot. Plenty of space and lots of sun shine all day.

Getting down to business, I marked off where my garden will go and began the tedious task of pulling the weeds and grass out of my area while putting my energy into the ground itself.

Items found:
Girl's hair clip
Caps to a full 6-pack of Heinekin bottles
roofing materials
1 green caterpillar
1 brown grub
1 big snail
2 toads

My baby slept under the porch with the warm breeze lulling him and my girl collected the bugs while I yanked weeds and hubby built a fence... crookedly.

After a few hours, the rain began but my 3 year old and I loved it and stayed a bit longer getting soaked. Half the garden is now weeded. Next weekend, I plan to finish the weeding and get hubby to shovel the rocks out.

I had started some seedlings last weekend in pots and wouldn't you know it they are all sprouted already.

Seeds/sproutlings/Small plants I already have:
Cucumbers
Cantaloupe
Kohlrabi
Pumpkin
Peas
Green beans
Dragon Fruit
Lavender
Mint
Basil
Tomatoes
Chives
Rosemary
Still needed:
Squash
Corn
Spinach
Thyme


I was going to order organic seeds online, but last minute I decided to go local instead and picked up what I could at a nursery. I also have a mango, papaya, grapes and blueberries growing in a different area of the house.

There are several garden pests that will need to be removed. The grubs are an easy one, need to buy Milk Weed Powder, a natural remedy that wont harm anything else. The Aphids, I sprayed with an earth-friendly pesticide but I don't think it worked yet. There are also some tiny bug bits all over my tomato and basil plants though. Not sure what is causing those yet.