More news about the surge in gardening
With gas and food prices on the rise, it's no big surprise that vegetable gardens are taking off. My only wish - that I could properly join all of you for the veggie fun.
The Press Herald ran an article yesterday about the substantial increase in seed sales, compost sales and soil tests this year. Community gardens are filling up quickly. Classes about home gardening and canning are gaining popularity as well. It's the return of the Victory Garden!
Who knows how long it will last. It would be kind of neat if folks took up gardening to combat expensive produce from away and it turned out that most of them enjoyed it enough to stick with it. The more gardeners the merrier, I say. That way, when I have too many tomatoes, as I inevitably do and my next door neighbor has an abundance of zucchini - which I'm not growing this year - we can do a swap.
Yeah. Gardening and community. That's what it should be about.
Photo without permission from John Patriquin/Staff Photographer, Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram. Caption reads: Joy Ahrens pushes a wheelbarrow full of compost used to fertilize peas at the Yarmouth Community Garden on Wednesday.
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We have been very successful in using containers for growing veggies. We use wheeled containers so we can move them around to sunny spots on the deck. I also don't end up with an over abundance of one type of veggie. Well, maybe that's because the kids snack on them!
Your kids snack on veggies? Voluntarily? Man! I hope my kid is like that. :)
There are some veggies that I think just work better in containers. Peppers and cucumbers come readily to mind, but it's amazing what can be grown on a deck.
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