I've decided to start this blog because I want to vent about becoming a gardener. A couple of years ago I put a garden in my backyard, but I live in the suburbs. I'm not a farmer. I really don't know what I am doing.. but I try. I've read every magazine from Mother Earth News to Hobby Farms magazines. I've taken every gardening books from the library. I asked my 87 year old grandmother whose grows 70 tomato plants every year and can look at a plant and make it grow.
I want to do the right thing. I decide to start an organic garden for many reasons. The first reason is that I want fresh vegetables and herbs. I'm doing and organic garden because I don't want all those chemicals in me and my family. The bonus is that when you grow your own veggies and herbs they taste better than anything you could buy at a supermarket, and it's much cheaper.
This picture is of cucumbers that I started from seed last week. I never started plants from seed, but because of the economy I noticed that the price of buying starter plants has gone up. I planted cucumbers, squash, yellow tomatoes, grape tomatoes, basil, parsley, sunflowers and zinnias. I also planted lettuce in window box containers on my porch. So far only the cucumbers, squash and sunflowers have sprouted.
In order to recycle I even started seeds in egg cartons. Those haven't sprouted yet, but when they do I'll post the pictures.
Let's see how this all works out.
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