And so it begins!

If you're reading this, you have my condolences.  Surely you must have something better to do, no?

My name is Greg and I'm relatively new to vegetable gardening.  My parents had a 20'x20' garden growing up and while I earned the Gardening Merit Badge through Boy Scouts way back when, I never really paid all that much attention to the hows and whys of gardening.  To me, until relatively recently, you put stuff in the ground, watered it, and it grew and did great.

Many years after living with my parents' garden, my wife and I decided we wanted to do some vegetable gardening for ourselves and found a Community Garden Plot near to us.  Little did I realize that the ease with which my parents garden grew was due to many factors (pesticides, chemical fertilizers, lots of compost, 30 years of twice-yearly tilling, and grass clippings laid down around plants to deter weeds) that were invisible to me and were, in some cases, things I didn't want to partake in after doing some research.

So I decided to start learning how to do organic gardening.

I'm now on my 2nd garden plot (punted on the 1st and regrouped for a year before getting our current one) and am about to start year 3 in there.

This blog will record the progress I've made in learning about gardening (both general and organic) as well as recording progress made in the plot, lessons learned, failures, and will hopefully help others to avoid the mistakes I've made. 

A big caveat for anyone checking out my blog.  I know less about blogging than I do about organic gardening!  I promise I will try to improve things as I go.


Regards,
Greg
Will Seed For Food