Jennifro

COMMUNITY GARDEN

We are really gettin' crazy this spring and planting a community garden in my backyard. I guess you can't really call it a community garden when it's only for five families pretty much all related, but there it is. Plus one third of my actual "community" would rather chuck tomatoes at us than eat them, but that's another story. My good buddy Anjie is the mastermind behind the whole thing so we are just taking orders from her. We went to Poole's Store and hit the jackpot! They had so many plants there--pretty much everything we needed.

We found all kinds of awesome herbs, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, cantaloupes, watermelon, peppers, eggplant etc etc. We are using the Square Foot Gardening plan which will hopefully work out well. We're all a bunch of amateurs with high hopes!

We had a fun afternoon with the kids--smelling herbs, loading plants in boxes, giggling and enjoying the gorgeous day. We even ran into the Chief. He couldn't believe his daughter in law was actually following through on such an enormous project.

All the plants cost us about $120, which when you consider how much food it's supposed to yield, is unbelievably cheap. Now if we can just get them to grow!