Crystal Madrilejos

We’ve come a long way since our last garden meeting! This is what’s been happening.

After we had our soil tested, we made a list of all the veggies everyone wanted to try to grow and came up with a pretty ambitious list. Every person was then responsible for doing a little research on a few different plants. While everyone was reading up on their veggies we ordered the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange and anxiously awaited their arrival.

Fast forward a few weeks and here we are with starts growing in the basement under lights, a plowed and tilled garden plot with fencing, and a composting bin made from thin willow logs.

This is our first time gardening anything more than a few tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers in pots on the window sill. Our plot is 30 ft. X 40 ft. with a separate plot for extra potatoes. We had anticipated that it would be a lot of work, but you never really know how much work until you are standing before a seemingly huge plot of upturned earth with a rake in your hand and the sun blazing down on your back. But it’s been refreshing and rewarding to feel the work in my body. Something that I can’t really say I experience sitting at the computer all day.

To quote what Andrew said in a previous post

“the day we’re laying on our backs in our overalls eating fresh, warm strawberries straight off the vine in the summer sun will be the day I happily forget all the planning and laboring.”

–c.