Yes, I borrowed Senator Obama's campaign proclamation. If anyone had told me ten years ago, even five years ago, that I would get into gardening I would have said they were crazy. I first got the gardening/landscaping bug last year. I planted several perennial flowers and some bushes. I was amazed at the immense pleasure I received watching everything grow. So far this year all but one of the things I planted came back. This Spring when I started to think about what I wanted to add to my flower garden I began to reminisce about my childhood and the gardens that I grew up with. I was blessed to live in a neighborhood where just about everyone on the block had flower and vegetable gardens. My neighbors on either side of my little house had huge gardens and grew just about every vegetable you can imagine. We had the luxury of being able to pick fresh organic produce all summer long. Those were the days!
Upon taking that trip down memory lane I was inspired to try my hand at growing veggies. My husband was horrified at the suggestion because he had some not so pleasant memories of forced garden labor/slavery from his childhood. I managed to convince him to go along with my idea with vivid mouthwatering descriptions of B.L.T.'s and homemade spaghetti sauce in his future. (LOL) I also compromised and said we would start small this year with just tomatoes. I was almost overwhelmed at the huge selection of tomato plants. We decided on two Roma plants and two Best Boy plants. After selecting the trellis' and miracle grow we were well on our way.
I'm not big on reading directions so we ended up planting the tomatoes a little too close together which I think is affecting our yield and due to some laziness on both our parts in the watering department they are looking somewhat peaked, BUT we will have tomatoes!!!
My question to you readers is, is there some hobby or interest you have developed as an adult that you never would have imagined? Please email me and share your stories.
