Growing A Garden

I have long wanted to grow a garden, but since this was never intended to be our forever house I have always put off growing the large beautiful garden of my youth until we got to that place. Because of all of the changes that have occurred in our lives as of late, and the revelations that Bob and I had on the importance of staying in this home I am growing a garden right here in the space I have now.

I have been reading a lot about gardening and have become quite concerned because while seeds do need water, dirt, and sunlight to grow it seems that that combination of things is a bit more complicated than I had originally thought. I am nervous that my garden is going to be an epic failure kinda like last years "garden" that produced only a couple of cherry tomatoes and a pepper or two. (In the garden's defense I think it would have helped if I actually took the time to water it more often than twice a summer.)

Being a bit more serious about my venture into gardening this year both for the joy of doing so and because of the health benefits of knowing exactly where this food has come from I have poured over a couple of seed catalogs I ordered online for longer than I care to admit (who knew there were 50 gazillion different types of tomatoes?!). Although I could have ordered enough seeds for a garden three times the size of the garden I am going to have this summer I decided to heed caution to the one piece of consistent advise I have read in all of the gardening books I have poured over: don't go too big your first year.

Here is what we will be growing (or attempting to) in our first garden:

Watermelon

Tomatoes (both regular and cherry)

Pumpkins

Radishes

Pepper

Lettuce

Cucumber

Popcorn

Corn

Carrots

Green Beans

Zucchini

Summer Squash

Lavendar

Cilantro

Basil

Parsley

I am ordering most of my seeds from this catalog

Sorry - I couldn't figure out how to turn the picture.

 because all of the seeds are from non-GMO sources and all (or so I have been told by the magazine) are from non-Monsanto sources. 

I plan on ordering the seeds this by this weekend. We'll see what this adventure brings. Hopefully, lots of good delicious food. Wish me luck -  I know I will certainly need it.