The ground is dusty, barren and untended. While laying fallow is important to the garden cycle, sometimes we let things go too long. Finding the motivation to restart, revamp, get your head back in the game, can be challenging. Digging up the dirt, laying down soil amendment, pulling out the weeds, adding compost, reimagining your path all requires sweat equity. It is far easier to let things stay as they are, go unchallenged, take the well-worn course. But somehow, each spring this barrier of malaise is overcome and we start anew. Where do we find the motivation? Sometimes it is just a baby step - find a small seed of inspiration -- to kick us into gear and encourage us to stop accepting that things are easier if they stay the same. Change creates excitement, fear, opportunity and hope for new successes and challenges. This is the essence of life. Let's start again and see where it takes us.
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| Main garden. Yellow Peppers, Leeks, Eggplant, Cilantro, Carrots, Bok Choy, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Thai Peppers, Cucumbers |
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| Back Forty - Sweet Corn, Radishes |
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| The Artichoke that keeps on giving! |
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| Cantalope and Honeydew |
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| Radishes and Beets |
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| Zucchini |
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| Basil and Tomato and of course, Marigold throughout as the natural pesticide |
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| Basil with two Tomato plants |
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| Lettuce, several types. The spot behind the wood barrier is left open for succession planting of lettuce. |
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| The fuller picture of the main plot. |
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| Leeks, with open plot for later plantings. |
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| Carrots and Bok Choy |
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| Three tomato plants |
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| Cucumbers in the trough, but grapefruit tree is so large that shade may inhibit successful growth |
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| The Back Forty. Starting with corn, radish, open plot, thyme, beets, radishes and artichoke. |
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