So it’s finally come to this… Between a cooking blog or a gardening blog I decided to go with the latter. Mainly because I’m not much of a cook, heh.
Like cooking, gardening has always been an activity that I enjoy very much, and having a small outdoor space to tend to while living in a big city is a venture that I always look forward to doing every summer. But with a recent move out of my mother’s house and into a condo with only a deck for outdoor space, I am now facing the challenge of container gardening on very limiting and windy conditions.
Up until the beginning of this year my gardening experience has mostly centered on watering, and occasionally feeding, my mother’s plants. Before, I have never grown anything successfully from seed, nor have I ever kept a plant thriving for very long (Oops!). Luckily for me, I found the perfect place to expand my experience and experiment with whatever I want to plant— In Mother’s unused backyard. After much wheedling and with the help of my sister we were able to convert the rest of my mother’s city backyard into a vegetable garden of sorts on the condition that I share half of whatever edible yields that grew (or whatever survives under my care!) to the homeowner. All this while also maintaining our container garden in the deck.
In light of that undertaking, this blog is born… To document the progresses of both vegetable and container gardening, and to rant about my ongoing (and losing) battle against slugs, bugs and everything in between. Here’s hoping that everything goes well until the end of this year’s harvest season.
Hi Greenie Gardener, I’m also blogging about vegetable gardening in my city back yard. I’ll place a link from my blog to yours maybe we can then get a bit more traffic. I’m also relatively new to gardening and blogging.
Cheers