“How To” Garden Posts

   After publishing this past Friday’s post on the White House Garden, I received an almost immediate email reminding me of a comment I made a long time ago.  Although I have published a few posts on gardening topics over the years, I have not made good on my promise to make them a regular part of the site’s content.  Apparently a year or so ago in a comment thread on one of the gardening forums I sometimes visit, it was asked of those of us that have blogs: “what it would take to make posts on how to grow vegetables a regular part of you site?”  I answered, as did many others, that there were already many sites devoted just to this topic and the need to add more to the conversation just was not there. The original forum poster then stated that they wanted to know what it would take, not whether it was needed.

I can’t find the original forum thread, but the email I received reminded me of my response.  I said I would do it when the White House put in an organic vegetable garden.   I guess I am now committed to making a gardening post at least a somewhat regular part of this site.  They are fun to write and do usually seem to get several comments so I will see what I can do.

If I just make more of my Wordless Wednesday posts photos of my garden, will that count?  hehe.  Maybe not.  The truth is that there has probably never been a more important time for people to grow more of their own food.  The economic, environmental, and health aspects of organic vegetable gardening are all crucial to the sustainability of our modern societies.  And, it is not as difficult as it may seem.  Almost anyone, no matter where they live can grow some of their own food.  If thousands of us lowly bloggers do nothing more than document our own efforts to grow healthy organic vegetables, maybe we can entice a bunch of new recruits to grow their own carrots.