FiftyBogue

I now know that I’m not really cut out to be a gardener – at least not yet. Avid gardeners are pouring over their seed catalogs right now and jonesing for spring so they can dig in the dirt. I, on the other hand, didn’t even look at the Burpee catalog that came last week before recycling it. I really haven’t recovered from our gardening debacle of last summer.

B. and I finally aired our differences about gardening – which are many – but agreed on a few things:

1. It’s a lot of work
2. We didn’t have a lot to show for it
3. We didn’t enjoy it very much
4. I didn’t do enough of the work
5. We like to eat fresh vegetables
6. It would be a shame for the new fence to go to waste

So. Here’s the compromise:
B. is going to plant a few tomato plants in a very sunny spot in the yard. I am going to do a little bit (probably a very little bit) of reading about no-till gardening, pick my gardening friends’ brains, and try a “pilot” no-till plot this summer. I’ll probably plant 4 things, and I’m hoping to prove to B. that no-till is less labor-intensive than what we did last year.

But I’m tired just thinkin’ about it.

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