Gardening
by Nfidel | Published on November 10th, 2009, 12:58 pm | Food
With all the writing at Greensboring about food, does no one grow their own, food that is? Am I the only gardener on the board? I've been gardening since the first summer I moved to my present location, probably around 17 years ago. One day a local pot head came over and asked if he could trade some tractor work for... well anyway he plowed part of my yard that night. (Several locals at the time were driving tractors and riding mowers as their only legal means of motor assisted transportation. Now those types ride scooters.) I knew nothing about gardening but got advice from neighbors and from where ever I bought seed and plants.
It's a rewarding pastime. I eat the end result; the work, except in the hotter months, is soothing to the psyche; some, if not all vegetables, taste much better when eaten at full ripeness; one can grow vegetables that have not been bred for shipping and shelf life but for taste; one can control the amount of pesticide and fertilizer used on the plants.
In our area one can grow and/or harvest in all but the coldest of months. In fact, I'll be eating Brussels's Sprouts probably in January and will be planting spring vegetables by early March. Today I'm going to eat raw, sliced turnips will a little salt and later I'll be cooking a big pot of mixed greens.
This photo is last Thursday's harvest. Today it was much the same.