Gardening in 2009

This is all new for us. When my son said he wanted to grow some vegetables, I was all for it! How can you say no to that? We even had an area in our yard that is fenced in and had been used by previous owners for just that!

Ok, here WAS my idea of a garden. You throw some seed around. You water it. Weed a couple times, and then POOF! you have food.

Anyone else think like that?

Then I found a couple gardening blogs.........Oh how wrong I was. Then I joined some club and got some books. Oh how wrong I was.

http://carletongarden.blogspot.com/
That is my favorite gardening blog. All about gardening and pictures of her dog! How can you not like it!

By her suggestions, we have bought all the stuff necessary to start growing the seeds inside. I'm hoping to get it set up this weekend! And of course take pictures. I really need to put more pictures on this blog.

Gardening

My son has taken an interest in growing our own vegetables. How can a mother say no to that?

We spent last summer buying books and tools, preparing the area, digging up little trees, weeds, tilling, fencing, etc....

I've joined this online gardening club. I get magazines, books, seeds, and tools from them (for a very low price!).

I'm following gardening blogs.

I have no idea what I'm doing. You will have the pleasure 0f following our progress, or lack of, in a few months. If you have any tips, please share!!

Here is what we have done so far:
Prepped the area
picked the veggies we want
started reading on how to plant said veggies
started buying the tools
sketched a picture of where we will plant said veggies.

I had no idea that you had to start growing things inside before winter is over!! It looks like for our area, we are going to begin this process in March.