Hello one & all...been planning and dreaming big dreams for my garden this year. We already added strawberries and there are flowers aplenty (even on our newest plantings) so I am hopeful for a small, yet tasty, first harvest! I am taking a different approach this year and concentrating on a few new items...potatoes and onions will be new items for us. I will definitely go with eggplant as it was outrageous at the farmer's market last year. Tomatoes, peppers (hot and sweet), short row of beans, short row of edible pod peas and carrots. I have a fairly large garden and, once again, a decent segment will be devoted to salads and spinach.
I am most definitely fine-tuning my preservation thoughts and will only freeze and/or can what I am certain will be eaten. (I have a few items still clogging the shelves that simply were not favorites and did not get reached for quite often enough.) No more fancy soups, picklings or sauces here. I figure better to give excess harvest away than waste time, money and energy putting it by and then never eating it...better still for someone else to enjoy it.
Still uncertain whether gardening is worth the effort for you and your family? Check out this article from Mother Earth News. (My new, favorite magazine and e-newsletter!)
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Square-Foot-Gardening-Food.aspx?utm_content=05.12.10+SLCS&utm_campaign=SLCS&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email
Read and enjoy! Blessings, Eve
1 comment:
It sounds like you are going to have a fantastic harvest this year.
I live in the city, so space is very limited. I have one little spot, where I have everything growing though. Cherry tomatoes, peppers of all sorts, potatoes, coconut and then of course our pineapples, mango trees and avocado trees.
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