Starting a vegetable garden
Ed, from Slow Cook , asked bloggers to post about starting a vegetable garden recently, in a post forwarded to me by a gardening friend (CEN). This is a topic I'm totally keen on . At the Garden where I work, we're having an event next weekend to promote vegetable gardening, with the tagline of 'Building Community, Growing Vegetables.' Those of us who enjoy growing vegetables know the joy of harvesting and eating from the garden, whether it's a couple of tomato plants or a series of raised beds or an expansive 'kitchen garden' -- and we're keen on promoting it to others. The first season in my 'main' vegetable garden My first vegetable garden as an 'adult' was modest. We'd just put in a fence (for our old boy, our dog Chessie), who wasn't prone to roam, anyway, but we sprung for picket fence in the most visible areas. I planted snow peas -- and this was just the beginning. My previous forays involved trying to plant onions in ...