SFG Gardening
For the first time in my adult life I have a back yard -- and somehow, that motivates me much more than the balconies I had in almost all my Parisian apartments. So here I go, inspired by the vegetable gardens of new friends here in Vancouver, I set out to read up on the "howto". Pretty soon, somebody mentioned square foot gardening, and the book really made it sound all so logical and methodical, very appealing to my engineering and planning side. I really loved the process: deciding where to put the beds, how to build them, buying supplies, building them, filling them, putting the little grains in the earth, and since then waiting and moistening the top layer every day. So even though it took me forever (say three months?) from first thinking/talking to now seeing the first little green leaves poke through the soil, I love to do it this way, my way. So what, if this year's harvest is going to be smaller than had I started the easy way right away rather than building an...