Gardening is darn sexy

When spring finally gets here and the weather is warm I tend to go nuts. Well nuttier, especially since I have started to garden and really appreciate a good homegrown vegetable. I tend to quote one my favorite books Animal, Vegetable, Miracle when I say that vegetables are sexy. Last year when my asparagus finally came up I was so joyful that I should never forget that feeling for the rest of my gardening life. I will always have at least a bucket of dirt laying around waiting to be filled with some thing green and pretty.  Some women get giddy at the idea of a diamond ring new shoes or some other materialistic thing but I have never really been that way. I get giddy over the evening primrose, if you stand there long enough when the sun goes down in July, you can be the first to smell a freshly open yellow primrose and witness the night insects flocking to the sweet air.  They are shriveled up by noon the next day, but there is round after round all summer long so it's not so sad.
 

I have a small plot in the backyard I will be using, my first plan for it is to till by hand. I am thinking cucumbers, eggplant (of course), and peppers and maybe sweet 100's the only tomato I eat off the plant raw. Papa Carr has slews of vegetables growing every where so I am just growing things we aren't already. I am a little concerned with the idea of going to greenhouses, I may have to take someone with me to restrain me when I try to buy every plant and species of pepper or tomatoes.

To have your hands in the dirt is one of the more rewarding things in life in my opinion. If I get older I will also have a flower garden, I have been envying others and their pretty blooms. I was thinking I would plant flowers that bloom at different times of the season so I would always have change naturally. I detest when landscapers tear up perfectly good tulips to replace them with some other flower for later in season aesthetics.

Anyway, I am excited about my mini garden. Even if it isn't as grandiose as last years garden it's still mine and it's still sexy.