Fresh Veggies and gardens
By Kowgirl
@Kowgirl (3490)
United States
July 31, 2007 12:48pm CST
Do you have a garden with lots of different veggies or even one with just a few or even one vegetable? I live in an apartment now and I miss not being able to go outside to a nice little garden of vegetables. I think the reason my mom is still alive and healthy is because she has always had a garden of fresh vegatables. She is 91 years old and still tends to her garden. How's your garden, or do you have one?
4 responses
@peavey (16936)
• United States
31 Jul 07
I have two small raised bed gardens and a tiny plot in the corner of the yard. This year I have beans, lentils, tomatoes, green peppers, acorn squash and a few potatoes. I miss the garden I used to have, but probably couldn't keep up with it any more. Besides that, what would I do with all that food?? :)
I do think, though, that working in the garden is just plain good for a person. Not only do you get exercise, it's soothing and gives one a sense of connectedness to life, if that makes sense.
@Kowgirl (3490)
• United States
1 Aug 07
I used to think that pulling out weeds was a chore
now I wish I had some weeds to pull!
Oh, I could think of a dozen ways to eat, can, freeze, swap, and
give all that food. We are a hungry nation and anyone is ready to buy or do chores to get fresh vegetables.
Exercise and fresh air as well as good food, you can't beat that.
May the weeds in your garden be few.
Kowgirl
@stale123 (2)
• Canada
31 Jul 07
Yes I have a great garden in the back yard of my home. AT first I just planted raspberries and they kept reseeding themselves until the whole garden was covered with them. So I built a greenhouse with raised beds and planted tomatoes. Wow were they delicious as in sweet and succulent. Now I've taken a lot of the raspberries out by giving them away to friends and family as I hate to destroy a plant or tree. This year have carrots, beets, tomatoes, cauliflower, zuccini, rhubard within the garden. Lots of rain helps and I compost a lot as well. I find I am gradually taking out more and more lawn and replacing it with garden or another tree or some other thing that I don't mind watering when it's dry for a spell instead of wasting my water on a disfunctional and thirsty lawn. My therapist when I went to him said they're is nothing better for you then gardening like getting your hands directly into the soil or standing barefoot in the soil as all the goodness goes into you through your skin. I feel the best when I am working away or just harvesting things with in the garden......
@Kowgirl (3490)
• United States
1 Aug 07
Oh how I envy you and your garden, I know envy is one of the 7 sins but I just can't help it. I grew up with fresh vegatables from the garden and now the food (even the organic) doesn't taste as good as that from a garden.You are lucky to be able to work in a garden, it makes you feel closer to God in some ways. And what you get in return for that work is just priceless. I do miss the garden parties where we all worked together and shared all the good fresh foods.
Have an abundant summer
Kowgirl
