Getting Garden Ready!

I know it's not garden season yet, but I have cabin fever and I need to think about what's around the corner, and that would be SPRING! Spring can't come soon enough for me this year. I am not always a fan of digging in the dirt, and swatting at mosquitoes, but it's all worth it when I know a fresh BLT and a cold glass of fresh watermelon lemonade is just around the corner. Have you ever had a fresh watermelon lemonade? It's the best summer time drink!

Every summer I plant a garden for practically nothing! I can rent from May - September a 20x20 piece of land from my local garden club for $10 dollars. Talk about a bargain! The Garden Club will till the land, section it off, assign each gardener a site number, and the best part, the land even comes with a WELL!

Right before planting, I start to get a little nervous. Why? you ask.

It's like getting ready for a trip. Do I have everything? Did I pack too much, or too little? All the seed packet pictures look delicious and I get overly excited and buy, buy, buy way too much to plant in my now, not so big 20x20 space. So off to the drawing board, and after taking pencil to paper and drawing up a plan, I end up buying two sites and I still think I am over planting for the space. Oh well, I grew up in a tiny house with a too many siblings, and turned out just fine; so why should it matter if my plants are a bit over crowded?

All too often my over crowded garden has been reduced in size by pesky bugs, hungry woodchucks, rabbits, and deer. They know a good thing when they see it! I also try my hardest to keep my garden organic and not to use chemicals, but I can not control what someone else is using blowing onto my plants. Somehow it all works out and my entire family, friends and neighbors eat all summer long from my garden.

I can not wait to share some of my favorite garden tasty treats! You won't even know you are eating healthy, I promise!

More to come!

Helen