I am an amature gardener, heavy on the amature. Each year that we have owned our home I have had a kitchen garden and each year I have learned a lot about gardening, our food supply and patience! I love gardening, my husband is thankfully amused by my not so green thumb and continues to encourage and support me. This year (like every other) I anticipate learning lots more and hopefully producing more food than last year.
I read a really informative and inspirational book this winter called The Vegetable Gardner's Bible. I was particularly excited by the idea of moving away from row planting as I do not have a lot of garden space. I had looked into Square Foot Gardening before but was turned off by the seemingly high costs associated with this method (building boxes and making Mel's Mix in particular.) I am therefore attempting a happy medium of the two this year which I hope will yield lots of tasty veggies for my family to eat :)
I found a really great website with lots of helpful information on gardening called My Square Foot Garden. The author emphasizes planning as being key to a successful garden and with her fabulous tutorial I was able to create my garden plan for 2011!
I let the Bug choose which veggies we will grow in our garden this year with only a little gentle guidance from mom. She was so excited to help plant, weed and water the garden last year it was wonderful! My mother-in-law has graciously offered to help plan and install a drip irrigation system for us but I think that would ruin some of the fun for the Bug and I like the necessity of visiting the garden to water as it gives me lots of opportunities to poke around and admire my plants :)
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