Growing a garden? Anyone else?

[Annette222]

We usually plant a good garden each year and I'm SO looking forward to it this year! The last few days have been so warm (yeah, I know, Mother Nature is just teasing us), but I am SO ready to start planting. We usually grow tomatoes, peppers, beans (I prefer pole beans but hubby likes bush beans), cukes and squash. We have to clear out the beds of the dead stuff, both weeds and dead plants but I'm ready. Bring spring on!!!

[Chelle]

I love gardening! I'm just getting ready to start my seeds in the house. This time last year I was too drunk/sick to plant a seed in dirt. I can't believe how much different my life is today! 28 days until springs. Yippee!!

[Robert R]

A friend bought me a garden sign a couple of years ago:-

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow"

Love to make jam from my home grown fruit to share with my friends.

[Db1105]

I love it. I love having fresh herbs outside to use when I need. That along with the tomatoes, tomatillos, and peppers from sweet to ghost. Added horseradish last year so I'll see how that turns out at the end of the season. And, then there is the rest of the yard with the flowers, shrubs, and trees, and everything in between.

[Tosh]

I tend to grow the stuff we can eat and Mrs Tosh takes care of the flowers 'n' stuff.

My favourite is my asparagus patch; you only have to plant it out once, wait a few years before you start cutting and then - for the next 15 to 20 years - you get asparagus every year. It's dead easy. The fairies do all the weeding too (or Mrs Tosh, I'm not sure to be honest).

We have a greenhouse too - living in a temperate climate - it gets cold, so with a greenhouse I can get some grow bags in there and start a little earlier and grow a little later too.

Unfortunately my greenhouse isn't self watering; the fairies (or Mrs Tosh) won't stretch to that.

[ezdzit247]

My area is getting a welcome break from rain, hail, sleet, and snow and enjoying our annual false spring. Daytime temperatures are about 70 degrees. Fruit trees are budding, perfect weather for playing in the dirt and turning over the raised beds. I grow everything for summer salads & stir fry plus some yummy varieties of summer squash & melons, and lots and lots of basil for pesto. Love it!

[Richardtij]

I love gardening!

[PaigeB]

I feed the birds and plant for the pollinators. I guess that makes me a low maintenance yard person. I planted two new trees plus sunflowers and wildflowers. This year I learned how to string a weed eater!

[Chelle]

^^ Hi Paige! Thanks for reminding me that we're never too old to learn new tricks! Sounds like you will be roped into a weedwacking job this summer

[PaigeB]

^^ Hi Paige! Thanks for reminding me that we're never too old to learn new tricks! Sounds like you will be roped into a weedwacking job this summer

Actually teaching my 12 yr old granddaughter! She learns along with me, so I cannot give into fear or self pity!

[1Peter5:10]

I have often thought of (and perhaps spoken of) starting a tradition. It would involve giving 1-6 small tomato plants to someone new to sobriety, fresh out if rehab. Many such persons are eager to do their 90 in 90, do their 90 days in halfway and 90 days in IOP and then go back and work 2 jobs, make amends and "fix their life."

Often such people (I was DEFINITELY one,) believe that 90 days us too long. It won't be require the whole 90 days.

Such tomato plants, barely more than seedlings, are sold during the right time of the year in every Walmart and Home Depot, and typically require 90-120 days until picking.

Somehow it just seemed appropriate that giving such a person a few tomato plants, with instructions to plant them, nurture them, and then pick and eat them when ripe, would help to put things in perspective.

Then again, I went into my treatment centers' detox unit with 9 other people. Most of us didn't make it 90 days. By day 180 I was the only one sober and 5 of the 9 were dead or in living hell.