Gardens

There must be something in our genes that coax us to plant something when the winter days of ice and snow leave and March winds announce that Spring is on its way. Today my son went shopping for garden supplies. I suggested we try growing Kentucky Wonder Beans along a portion of the wooden fence that encloses the back yard. I had been successful in growing some many years ago when we lived in one of the student apartments in Stanford Village.

Our apartment was the only one that had a large, screened in porch. I strung string from the ground to the top of the porch and planted Kentucky Wonder Beans, which vine. It wasn't long before I could pick fresh green beans to cook for dinner. Not only did we have fresh garden produce, the vines shaded the porch so that we had another room when the weather was nice.

We have seed packets of cucumbers and flowers. If all the packets get planted, we will have a long row of sunflowers along the back yard fence and sprinklings of marigolds and other colorful flowers in the various planters in the patio.

At this point, all we are doing is looking at the pictures on the front of the seed packets. Perhaps our greedy imaginations of thriving colors will come to naught. Its a lot of hard work to accomplish what we have in mind and who knows---as some famous people have been heard to say, "We'll see".

I'll post updates.