Last night I finally had a chance to crack open my copy of  Mother Earth News ~ it was a special edition: Guide to Growing your own food. OMG. Has spring fever ever hit.  It got me all excited to start a vegetable garden. It got me excited to help others learn how to start a vegetable garden too.

Every year we have a vegetable garden. The first year we lived here we had no idea what we were doing. We rototilled a HUGE area, and went crazy. That was not a good garden lol. Yeah it was great in the spring, when the weather was nice and I still had the motivation to get out there and work in the garden. Come summer, that poor neglected garden was a mess. We still got a lot of produce out of it, but it was the ugliest garden ever.

Over the next few years we tried different things, different sizes and finally found something that works great for us ~ well me mostly now. My husband’s pretty much given up on the whole vegetable garden idea.

The last few years I have had one relatively small raised lasagna bed. It has been just right. During that time I was pregnant, had a newborn and we had some veggies through all of it. This year she’s going to be 3 and loves to garden. I’d also like to have more produce to can at the end of the summer so I am going to build a few more raised beds and do them up lasagna garden style.

I also have a couple ideas I want to try out for some larger plants that I would like to grow but don’t really have the space right now, like pumpkins, and watermelon.

This blog is going to be a diary of a home vegetable gardener. I hope to give you all some tips, and hints that have helped me along the way, and answer any questions that I have had and had to answer to move forward.

If I’ve learned one thing from growing a vegetable garden it is this: it is all about the journey.

Tags: how to start a vegetable garden, Vegetable garden