How Does Your Garden Grow?

"The time has come," the gardener said, "to talk of many things, of beets, carrots and lettuces and sweet peas strung on strings.  And why the ground is dark-brown gold and flow'rs are blossoming..."

As you might guess from my Alice in Wonderland rip-off, I am quite excited for the garden!  My little seedlings are (for the most part) growing nicely and as of yet they have not been ravaged by bugs or other critters.  The soil has been fortified with horse manure and raked into three lovely rows, the trellises are up and now it's time to weed and wait.  The amazing amount of work that goes into a garden is a wonderful trade-off for the treasures I will be enjoying later this summer and I suppose I would rather spend a bit of time raking, tilling, and weeding than paying with cash; the end result is so much tastier than any produce at the grocery store and it's just a quick trip out the back door.

The best part?  I know exactly how my food was grown and who has handled it.  I've started these little guys from seed and having that kind of connection with one's food is not only rewarding but something that I consider to be an important experience.  Every new sprout is thrilling and every failed tomato plant is frustrating!  But oh, how I love to watch things grow and garden full of food is not only fun to harvest, but also, it's fun to share - I'm hoping that I'll have to host a pick-your-own-veggies party at the end of the summer.

I like to watch things grow.   

They grow and bloom and fade and die and change into something else.   

Ah life...  

   -Maude, from the film Harold and Maude