Actually more like a windy afternoon. I decided yesterday to do two things - start a blog and plant a garden. So, here I am starting the blog, anyway. I will be planting the garden this weekend. I really like the idea of an organic garden- it's sustainable, renewable, functional, and healthy. It also builds community. Oftentimes, we barely know our next door neighbors, let alone the people three or four houses down the street. Gardening is a great way to meet those people - you've got to have someone to give all of your leftover vegetables to! My fiance and I are discussing what to plant in our garden, so I am open to suggestions. We're looking for vegetables that are easy to grow in North Florida and are tasty (that's a matter of opinion, but to me that means no zucchini, broccoli, or yellow squash). I haven't had much luck growing anything but tomatoes, so any suggestions or tidbits of advice are welcome.
Stay tuned to find out what we end up planting!
Here a a few interesting links that I found for anyone interested in organic gardening:
http://www.kitchengardeners.org/
http://www.organicgardening.com/
http://perrone.blogs.com/horticultural/
This is a great blog by Jane Perrone, a British author and organic gardener
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse
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