Growing a garden

There's nothing quite as wonderful as fresh vegetables.

Last year, we joined a CSA that only expanded my appreciation for growing stuff. I learned to cook kale, Japanese greens (the original fast food) and Jerusalem artichokes, which are not from Jerusalem or an artichoke.

I learned fresh radishes and the sliced red and white "radishes" at a salad bar are not at all the same thing.

So I'm giving gardening a go this year. I'll grow mostly simple things like tomatoes and lettuce. In fact, I'm so new at this that I had to get a book from the KIDS section of the library. I know... embarrassing.

I have a lot to say about gardening, from my dad's vegetable gardens, to my aunt's canned tomato sauce, to my reluctance to go too far on the side of vegetable-garden crazy for fear my neighbors will talk about me.

But for now, I'll just cross my fingers, hope this endless winter actually ends one day and fill my slosh bucket for compost with all our fruit and veggie scraps.