And so it begins....

I intended for this blog to be mainly about my attempts at turning a mostly shady, sandy/clay yard into a lush self sustaining garden full of vegetables to fill our bellies throughout each of the seasons, flowers blooming so plentiful that an armful of cut flora wouldn't even make a dent in the rainbow that would be my yard.

But.  Let's keep it real folks.  I haven't quite figured out where all the garden beds should be.  I can't tell my North from my South and forget about East/West.  When someone says drive North on Such'n Such Street and turn East on WayoverThere Street... I'm the gal that's looking like...the atypical deer in headlights-huh?-expression on my face. "So... do you mean towards the McD's or in the other direction?  If you can tell me the landmarks of what to look for, then I can figure it out!"  So, I'm not sure where the trellis should be in my (yet to be built) square foot gardening beds.  Not to mention, how, to even build my (yet to be built) square foot gardening beds.  I've got a HUGE pile of leaves.  That's a start in the right direction of composting, right?.  I've got loads of seeds for my future garden.  I managed to grow about 5 tomatoes last year.  (don't laugh!)

In other words, I have a lot to learn.  But I've been researching and reading so many wonderful, fantastic, information filled blogs that I feel like this is the year.  THIS IS THE YEAR!!!  I'm enthusiastic and stubborn, two helpful gardening traits, or so I'm told!  I'm looking forward to advice from all the successful and even the not so successful gardeners out there in blogland.

I figure this blog will be about my adventures and misadventures in the garden, along with some delicious, fresh recipes from the produce in your garden (or as in my case last year..from your local farmer's market! except those 5 tomatoes, can't forget those!)  I might chat a bit about my wonderful (and goofy) family.  I'll be doing some garden art/garden junk projects this year, some new walkways, LOADS of new garden beds and I'll be winter sowing some perennials soon.  Hopefully this will be a great source of information that I can look back on and use to make improvements for the next year's garden.

And so the adventure begins.  First thing on my TO DO list:  Buy a compass!  :)

In the meantime, because it's so gray and dreary outside right now, I'll leave you with some flowers from gardens' past to enjoy.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Wendy / Sassyb