What a beautiful and profound meditation on edible gardens as a way to reorient our lives and subvert the dominant culture! Thank you for the reminders of the rhythms of the garden seasons, and the myriad health and wellness benefits of gardening--especially as we age. I am two years older than you, so my cultivated gardens have shrunk to a size I can continue to manage and have gone into stock tanks perched on concrete blocks to be raised above the ground and easier to tend with an aging and very achy body.
I hope the flu has left you, and that you're feeling more yourself again!
Thank you! I suspect this will be the last year or two of my big garden. I have also made adaptations but a 4000 sq ft garden is a lot of work for one person.
I so appreciate your gardening thoughts and experience as well as the pics! Lots to munch on here! May your flu soon be history and letting you alone for a good long time. Do rest as you can.
As a longtime vegetable gardener, I loved this post, of course. I juggle seasons differently now that I have two gardens in very different climates.
But I’m anxious to sown quick-growing greens and cool season transplants in my Asheville garden next weekend, when we return there. Just as I’ll be ready to put in greens and tomatoes (!) in my Quebec garden in June along with beans and squash.
A different rhythm for me now. It’s one I’m still learning.
But I totally appreciate your thoughts about gardening. True for me, too.
Two gardens! I don't know if I could handle that. But it sounds like it works for your lifestyle. As a 45th parallel gardener, I am envious of your Asheville garden zone. I am counting the days.
Gardening in Asheville is a breeze. A wonderful gardening climate for my four-season raised beds.
With two small houses, in very different climates, I chose to try growing vegetables in Quebec, too. It’s interesting! And it feeds my soul, too, as you write about your garden. I have lots of fruits in Quebec, which I don’t have in Asheville - very nice! (Although lots of work to harvest and preserve, but which provided lovely remembrance of the previous summer this winter and will again this summer, before rhubarb and strawberriy harvest begins again.
What a beautiful and profound meditation on edible gardens as a way to reorient our lives and subvert the dominant culture! Thank you for the reminders of the rhythms of the garden seasons, and the myriad health and wellness benefits of gardening--especially as we age. I am two years older than you, so my cultivated gardens have shrunk to a size I can continue to manage and have gone into stock tanks perched on concrete blocks to be raised above the ground and easier to tend with an aging and very achy body.
I hope the flu has left you, and that you're feeling more yourself again!
Thank you! I suspect this will be the last year or two of my big garden. I have also made adaptations but a 4000 sq ft garden is a lot of work for one person.
I used to have a garden about that size, and I agree: it's a lot of work for one person!
I so appreciate your gardening thoughts and experience as well as the pics! Lots to munch on here! May your flu soon be history and letting you alone for a good long time. Do rest as you can.
Thank you! Whatever the virus is, it kept me down for several days. I am almost back to normal. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed my thoughts.
As a longtime vegetable gardener, I loved this post, of course. I juggle seasons differently now that I have two gardens in very different climates.
But I’m anxious to sown quick-growing greens and cool season transplants in my Asheville garden next weekend, when we return there. Just as I’ll be ready to put in greens and tomatoes (!) in my Quebec garden in June along with beans and squash.
A different rhythm for me now. It’s one I’m still learning.
But I totally appreciate your thoughts about gardening. True for me, too.
Two gardens! I don't know if I could handle that. But it sounds like it works for your lifestyle. As a 45th parallel gardener, I am envious of your Asheville garden zone. I am counting the days.
Gardening in Asheville is a breeze. A wonderful gardening climate for my four-season raised beds.
With two small houses, in very different climates, I chose to try growing vegetables in Quebec, too. It’s interesting! And it feeds my soul, too, as you write about your garden. I have lots of fruits in Quebec, which I don’t have in Asheville - very nice! (Although lots of work to harvest and preserve, but which provided lovely remembrance of the previous summer this winter and will again this summer, before rhubarb and strawberriy harvest begins again.
Lisa