Square Foot Garden Sept 19? I can Dig it!

As a child I remember my mom had a fabulous garden . I can still smell the fresh dirt and feel the smooth skin of the green beans as I sat with my sister pulling the strings off the top of each one.

When I grew up I longed for the time when I would have a place where I could have my own fabulous garden. The day after I purchased my first house, I immediately went to work digging up a corner of the yard. I dug the grass up, raked through it with a heavy hoe and filtered all the rocks out with a rake and my hands.
It took days of hard labor and hours of soaking my sore back.
 When the dirt was finally ready, I joyfully chose what seeds I would plant and carefully placed each baby in a thumbprint in the dirt. I watered it all and waited. I waited and I weeded. I waited and weeded and weeded as the weeds grew faster than the vegetables and seemed to choke them if I didn't go out there and save them every few days.
Over time the seedlings grew into lovely greens and bushes bearing a wonderful bounty but the labor was intense. There was a time when I was gone a week and came back to hours of back breaking jungle busting....but I did it.
As the season closed, I pulled up all the dead plants. The freshness and the satisfaction of knowing I grew beautiful, organic and tasty vegetables made it all worth it.
Every spring I would go out to my corner of the yard and start all over again. The back breaking digging, weed pulling ritual continued.

But then sometime along the way I stopped. I went out to the yard one spring day and looked at the shovel and went back inside.
I decided I didn't want to work so hard. Many times I've looked out the window and wondered. I long to tend a garden and harvest my own organic vegetables again. I wish there was an easier way.

Now there is! It a system called Square Foot Gardening and it requires very little work. How would you like to finally have a garden that has no weeds, requires no tools and very little space?

Come to the Tavares Civic Center on Wed Sept 19, 2012 at 3PM and listen to speaker Steve Earls of SFG Supply, certified by the Square Foot Gardening Foundation as he explains how simple, easy, and fun gardening can be in a small space.

I know I'm excited. I can't wait to feel the smooth skin and pull the string off the top of a fresh green bean once again. Happy gardening days are here again.

Learn more about Square Foot Gardening on Wednesday, September 19, 3pm at the Tavares Civic Center at 314 N. New Hampshire Street. Presented by the Tavares Library. For more info call 352.742.6204.

 Homegrown goodness!