I have big goals for our garden here. I want to produce veggies for ourselves and some of our local community and work to inspire others to garden.I’m still learning about growing vegetables. I love that about gardening that you can do it for so long and keep finding these huge areas of new information .There is just so much to know. I walked around with another veggie gardener on our last baking day and we talked with such enthusiasm about pests, seeding, veg.varieties.It’s different than the fine gardening I’ve been doing at work and in other gardens. I think it’s a really important background for farming to have the horticultural experience I’ve had, but farming and vegetable growing is slightly different.
For many many years, I had good intentions of growing vegetables, but after the first crop, the flowers would blow in and I felt I needed them more than the veggies. They soothed and satisfied me deep down in a way I now feel about vegetables. I don’t know why this finally changed. Maybe now because I have enough room to really grow vegetables and flowers. But really it’s surprising to me that I keep wanting to weed out the flowers. Not that I don’t still have a lot of flowers as well. I sold some to a local florist this year. I’m planting shrubs here with the intention that they would be good to market as floral greenery. It’s just that my priority has changed to something that goes into mine and another’s stomach . I think many of you gardeners would have similar experiences. It’s rather embarrassing , I felt strange not wanting to grow the vegetables. Here’s my old house pretty flowery no vegetables in sight.
