I’ll bet you’re wondering about that year around statement. Well I can tell you about that in just a minute.
Many people garden for flowers around the house and others garden for food and flowers while even others just have a few containers with their favorite tomatoes or herbs. The point here is that most of it is the sheer pleasure of it all.
To watch it all grow from all the work you’ve done is really amazing. There is a great satisfaction to growing it all yourself or with your partner or family. Everyone gets to get involved in the effort.
Now there are many ways to put a garden together and it doesn’t have to be hard. You can use containers as I mentioned earlier. You can use a small section next to the house or you can cut out a part of the yard and make it a designated garden. Some people go as far as making the whole yard into garden and grow pretty much all the food they need for most all of the year if not all year.
It all depends on you really. How much do you want to do. If you are just starting out maybe a small patch would be good for you so you can learn the basics and then as time passes you can increase the size.
We started out with a small 20′ X 20′ piece of the lawn and had a roto tilling service come by and get it ready for us to get started. Then the next year we expanded it and now we are expanding it again.
One of the joys of this is that our dogs also love the produce that comes from the garden. If we don’t keep them out of the garden they eat the vegies right off the plants and that can be frustrating but we know they are eating healthy. We never have to take them to the vet for being sick either.
I think my greatest pleasure from it all is that my wife has a fun hobby that she gets to share with friends and family and it makes her very happy. I get to have fresh vegetables right out of the garden and it just doesn’t get any better than that.
Gardening and home farming is an ongoing learning experience that always has something else to know so you would be hard pressed to try to know it all.
So first things first. Decide how you would like to start like containers or a small patch on the side of the house or a chunk of the yard and then decide what you would like to grow. Usually the best ones to grow are the ones you like to eat the most. Then you expand into more varieties.
My preference is to go organic and to stay away from any man made chemicals just to be safe. You can get organic compost to till into the soil to boost it’s nutrient value and it also make the soil more fluffy and easier to till each year.
As for year around gardening if you want to go that route then you will need a way to cover the beds and keep them warm. It can be freezing outside and you can be growing many different plants and eating fresh every day. It is just a matter of desire if you want to grow through the winter.
I hope this has been helpful to you. I have much more to write about so keep a lookout for more in the future.
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Glenn
