This post is for Kristy and anybody else who thinks that gardening is difficult. Like most things that seem intimidating at first, this is something that seems really easy after the first time. There are many resources available these days--google, youtube, and the greenhouses that sell seedlings.

Gardening can actually be rather inexpensive and the rewards are worth the effort. I eat store-bought radishes (with salt) while I'm cooking dinner, but in the summer..... In the summer it's a dinner plate full of chunked tomatoes with salt and pepper. Yellow squash is great fried with eggs for breakfast and there are at least a dozen uses for zucchini.

There are certain vegetables that I don't grow for a variety of reasons: cabbage because of bugs in the head, lettuce (except in pots) because Benny loves lettuce and he plucks the entire plant at once, and beets and radishes because that's something not quite right with my soil and I get all tops and scrawny root.

So, the first video is the basics. The second link is the complete process of how I planted this year's garden. It's almost a half hour, but worth watching for inspiration. As always, there are different methods available and different tools will get the same job done.



Here's a link to the complete planting video. This one is public. Feel welcome to leave comments and give the vids a thumbs up!


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Have a great summer, and remember, it's not too late to plant!