If you are like us, you enjoy fresh vegetables. For the longest time, we wanted to plant our own garden. However, planting a garden requires that you prepare the earth, get the seeds, get them going early in the year and then transplant. From there you have to insure that weeds will not take over the whole garden area, which mean you have to have time to go through it. I want a garden, but do I have time for all this?
Do I have time? I started to really question myself… will I be able to keep up with what having a garden requires? Also, I never really grown vegetables before, will this be a total fail?
Indeed, we successfully grew 16 beautiful blueberry trees in our front yard… but they were trees and we transplanted them. It’s different when you start off with a simple seed.
After long thinking, I have decided to go for the porch garden this year. Therefore, we have…
Am I taking the easy way out? Maybe! However, after taking the time to think things through, this was the best option for us this year. We both have careers that are asking a lot of our attention at this time (I just got promoted and need to adjust to my new responsibilities), but yet, we love to be surrounded by nature and be able to grow food.
Now, when I come home in the evening, I will be able to pick salad, peppers and tomatoes in order to build a healthy side salad… or top off a chicken or beef wrap. With the blueberries and strawberries, the possibilities will be endless!
So, am I a gardener? Nooooo, I would never consider myself a green thumb! Would I love to become a green thumb? Yesssss, you have no idea!! My ultimate goal would be to be self sufficient but for that, I would need a huge land! Not quite there yet!!
For those of you out there who thinks that you can’t garden because of your career, think again! This year, we are living the porch garden experience… who knows, maybe next year we will take it further and plant a real garden! I hope the porch garden wont be a fail… and that I will be able to cultivate some of these beautiful fruits & vegetables.
