Beginner Gardening: I Have GREEN!, 1 by dividedsky

dividedsky wrote:
Welcome back to gardening! I love hearing your enthusiasm. I'm the same way, and I'm pretty much a first-time vegetable gardener. My friends have been very polite, but I'm sure they must be getting tired of hearing about my tiny little cucumber sprouts and my bolting lettuce and my flowering bell peppers and . . . hee, hee!

The first ripe produce I got was a two-inch yellow crookneck squash, and I carried it around in my pocket showing it to anyone who would look. Got lots of laughs!

I take a gazillion pictures and love checking each plant, making sure it's ok, and just watching them develop. The people whose yard I garden in didn't know me prior to my pleas for a plot, so it's likely that they refer to me as the crazy garden lady. I'd kind of enjoy being called that, actually. :o)

I did everything backwards this year, as it was all a last-minute thrown together thing. Nice because I usually overplan just about everything, so I figured I'd do something more spontaneous. It's wonderful how resilient plants and seeds can be. They've survived not-so-perfect soil, wind and rain storms, late planting, lack of extra fertilizer and mulch, . . . I'm not winning any state fair ribbons, but then that's not what I'm after.

Enjoy! I hope you have a great experience.