FitDad clears weeds in our Winter garden
One thing we like about living in a temperate climate is we can garden year round. Though the weather's been unpredictable lately, FitDad and my brother-in-law determined last weekend that it's nearly time to start planting our Spring into Summer garden. With Daylight Savings upon us, it is starting to feel like Spring indeed.
A garden is a lovely way to connect with special people in our lives: while pulling weeds (or in our case, eradicating slugs), sharing the harvest with friends and family, connecting with the earth, and performing manual labor in sync with the seasons. There's something poetic about tilling the soil, selecting live plants (or growing them from seed), and watching something grow. And we save money, too, by harvesting and eating our organic veggies.
Since we're a feasible family, for now we're planting the following in our U-shaped 20 square-foot pad: heirloom tomatoes, pickling cucumbers and peas. It's easy to get carried away and plan an entire salad-plate of crops (just ask FitDad!), but we're sticking to the basics. My brother-in-law will be planting a complementary array of veggies in his small patio raised beds.
So goodbye chard, goodbye beans. Hello, Spring and Summer!
(Photo: jacki-dee)
