Any plans for a garden this year?

There are always plans for a garden. I feel confident in saying, there will never actually be a garden, at least not this year. The dirt in our yard needs serious rehabilitation before anything other than weedy grasses and hardy trees can thrive in it, and there are so many other things to do before we worry about the state of our dirt. Though if I have to keep eating the flavorless things they call vegetables at my local produce department, I may snap one day and plow up a good bit of the back yard. I’d have to get over my laziness first. That’s always the biggest struggle on any major and on-going project like gardening. Maybe now that I can drive the truck to Home Depot myself I’ll go crazy and rent a plow attachment for that crazy huge lawn tractor we own.

For the last few years my mother has had some great success with Earthboxes and bush-type veggies, so I am considering getting one myself this year to see how that would work for me. It won’t give me enough produce to can anything and put up for later, which is why I really want a garden in the first place, but at least we might occasionally have a nice plump tomato that tastes like I remember tomatoes tasting.

And as far as the front flower bed goes, I am currently looking at it as an example of native Texas plant growth. I got tired of fighting the slugs, snails, cat poo, weeds and other obnoxious gardening issues. Nothing but one iris plant and one wild rose bush ever grew well in it anyway … aside from the DAMN WEEDS!

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