A Place to Grow
One of the most important things you can do in your garden is plan. Relying on the seasons to guide your garden planning efforts is extremely useful. Each season brings substantial changes to your garden. There are tasks that must be done, preparations to be made, and limits based on weather and temperature patterns. Accepting the various seasons’ constraints allows you to get the most leverage out of them.
Each season brings important tasks to plan and execute. Some of them are critical to the “here and now” of the garden; others help set your garden up for success later in the year. Since the four seasons are an endless cycle, there is no perfect or imperfect place to start reviewing the planning process.
Ironically, summer gardening starts well before summer. In fact, over the years more and more of my summer garden starts with the new year. Gardening; like the new year, it brings a fresh start, a new life, and most importantly hope for the future. When planting seeds you have faith that the little seeds placed in the soil, will sprout, grow, and eventually provide nourishment and beauty into your life.
The garden is our family’s “happy place.” I grew up in a family of green thumbs, I longed to start my journey to providing organic homegrown food for my family, long before I even had a family of my own. That dream became a reality a few years ago when we bought our first home. The funny thing was, when house hunting, our “need list” for the property was much longer than the list for the actual house. I longed for land, space to grow, fresh air, and room to breathe in the beauty of the open air. I needed an outdoor haven to not only grow plants, but to grow myself from the inside out.
We found that place and have put a lot of hard work and love into making our vision a reality for our family. Through the years our blank slate quarter acre, has morphed into a tiny paradise for our family and friends. What once was nothing, is now our little Eden, providing us with fruit, vegetables, flowers and most importantly a space have silence and a place for fun. A place to grow things, and to grow ourselves.
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