Anyone Can Grow a Garden!

I was just outside weeding my unplanted garden.  My dear husband has already roto-tilled it twice this spring and I still haven't gotten it planted.  In my defense, I was also waiting for him to finish my fence.  Last year we had electric fence going around it but it was kinda a nuisance for me.  Although I'm very pro-electricity, it sometimes doesn't treat me right.  :/  This year my husband put up a wire fence with 2x3" rectangle holes, so that's awesome.  However, our livestock guardian dog started barking one evening during dinner and we looked out into the unplanted garden to see bunnies running in and out of the fencing.  So....my husband just finished reinforcing the original fencing with a 2ft high strip of chicken wire.  Let's hope that does the trick.

Back to you.  You can plant a garden in just about anything.  Grow something!

Get a big pot, some dirt and put a tomato plant in it.  Surround it with a couple of basil plants.  Water them and give them sunlight and one day you'll have half of a Caprese Salad that you grew all by yourself. (You can also learn to make your own mozzarella, but I'll save that post for another day.)

Even if you just have a little strip of ground in front of your house, put something in it.  Herbs are SO easy to grown.  Pretty much plant them and give them some water in the first few days and they'll grow.  (Do a little more research than my scant directions.)

If you live in an apartment, you can still grow something to eat.  Herbs, peppers, carrots, radishes and onions, dwarf varieties of beans and peas.  Greens such as leaf lettuce and arugula are also easy to grow.  

This post is a sort of wake-up call to encourage you to get your Pinterest on and find ways to make gardening possible in your current situation.  I have no doubt that you can learn and grow just one thing this season.  

Check that out!  It's a jalepeno pepper (with a cover crop for added nutrition) growing in a plastic grocery store bag.  WHAT?!!!  Indoors!  

Here's another:

Correct.  That's a tomato plant in a bag being grown indoors.  

By the way, I found these pictures on the internet to illustrate my point.  It doesn't have to be pretty.

I have actually grown potatoes in a trash bag successfully.  Outdoors, of course.  

You can do an internet search or Pinterest search for container gardening.  

Did you know also that you don't have to necessarily start a plant from seed?  You can pick up started plants just about anywhere.  Quite frankly that's what I do.  I buy tomatoes, peppers, herbs, even lettuces already started and just waiting to be adopted and put into my garden.  

Growing food has many benefits:

1. You learned a skill that can never be taken from you ever!
2. You cared for the plant.  You know what nutrition you gave it.  How you watered it.  Did you add chemicals to keep off the buggies?  If not, you just grew organic.  
3. You have confidence that you can do it again and probably better and with more plants.
4. You've saved just a little money on your grocery bill.  Imagine what  bigger garden effort could mean.
5. If you planted a larger garden, you can learn to preserve your own food which carries into the winter months.  You'll be eating home-grown food when it's snowy and cold.  That's awesome!

The gardening season has just begun.  We had such a cold winter in the East that the ground is just now warming up to plant anything safely.  When you're out and about pick up some sort of plant and get started.

Good luck!  I hope to hear from you and your successes with gardening.