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Last Month: "I first became acquainted with the wonder of seeds as a child. I watched my mother plant asparagus seed for our backyard vegetable garden one year. She must have explained to me that there was an easier way to grow asparagus, because I remember understanding there was something special about planting those seeds. It was a hope and faith that those tiny seeds would grow and give us a crop...
Several years later, at the age of twelve, I tromped out to the back acre of our new home. There was no garden, and I was determined to fix what I saw as a problem." and now. . . .
Full Circle of Life:
Infinity
We had always had a garden. It took up nearly a quarter of the yard at our old house. But the new house was devoid of vegetable patch. So, taking rusty shovel in hand, I tore up hay sod and tough roots and made my own.
Whether by design, or just because they were busy, my parents gave me the room to succeed or to learn from failure with that garden. The 4' by 4' plot was mine alone. Instead of telling me what I could or couldn't plant, or how to do it, they left me alone to experiment.
The only crop that thrived were the two Brussels sprouts that I had direct-seeded. I was quite proud back then that they required chopping down with an axe in the fall. I learned a bit about gardening that summer, a lot about aphids, and how hard lugging a watering can to the back acre was. Then I discovered boys, and gardening took a back seat for many years.
But even then, I was enthralled with the wonder of the seed and how it grows into something to eat. Growing vegetables is still my favorite kind of
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