Oh how I appreciate this podcast! I’m 60 and gardening is my joy. It’s my connection with my grandparents who have gone on before me and just as precious is gardening with my grandkids! I love watching them picking fresh sugar snap peas and strawberries and snacking in the garden. They LOVE planting and eating what they’ve grown! We were meant to garden. Best therapy ever!
Wow, this planting season sounds mind-boggling to me. I live in zone 9b SW Florida. We just had a week of cold weather with a cold night of 39 degrees, and now days later we're back to 80 degrees. So what I have learned is grow as much vegetables as I can in the fall and winter starting seeds beginning in late September, though April and then I spend my summer harvesting my tropical fruits and staying cool 😎
Bought your book online last year.. Didn't kn you were in Houston at the time. Finding you on this channel is my conformation that I need to work on creating a kitchen garden. I'm in the suburbs of Houston
Just found your RU-vid n I love gardening, but need more education for my zone 8b/9. I want to prepare myself n family for what is to come, it's a joy n as I prepare to retire I want to have a community garden. It's a joy I grew up with my grandma on a farm (flowers, veggies chickens, pigs pond of fish on the land.
That's great! I recommend heading here to find a garden consultant near you: www.gardenary.com/garden-consultant-inquiry. Follow them on social media or reach out to them for coaching to learn more about your climate
Why I want to grow this year is I just plain love growing plants. It brings me great joy. Yes of course the vegetables are so good, but it’s the soil, the sunshine, the plants, the planning and challenge. It also draws me closer to Jesus the creator and His creation. I never get tired of the miracle within a seed that grows into an amazing plant. I want to work taking care of this amazing earth He has given us. Gardening is in my deepest being.
I like your teaching. I just wish that when you talk about "relational", you would acknowledge the most important relation, and that is with God, who is the true Gardener. He is who grows everything. We are given the joy of stewarding His Creation. He is the Gardener, we just do the watering.
