And so it begins
I dream of being surrounded by rows and rows of vegetables, all grown by me, that will feed my family all year long. I guess I’ll have to start with what I can manage in our quarter acre yard. I’m always disappointed when I read books or blogs of people saying they are a beginner gardener and then I later find out they come from a long line of farmers and it really isn’t their first rodeo. So I’m a bit of a skeptic when I see that claim and I never know who to believe. However, I do know that I really am a beginner in the green thumb arena and I want to document my journey into this unknown realm of seeds and pods.
I’m not exactly sure where this back-to-the earth desire came from, but I think it partially stems from the year my husband and I spent in Japan and a peak into a different way of living. It made me want to have less, but experience more. Specifically, to create something or bring something new into existence. Ever since then, we’ve been dying to have a yard that we can bring to life.
To begin, I’m going to have to backtrack a bit because it’s already the end of June and I’m just now collecting my gardening thoughts. But I’ll start at the beginning and bring things up to date.
Here we go…