For a long time I’ve wanted to start a blog – I’m as egocentric as everyone else! But, from time to time I like to muse “out loud”, as it were, about life and how much it is like a garden. It constantly takes work to get rid of the weeds. I’m not talking about the pretty or useful weeds – that in other gardens are called “herbs” or “wild flowers.” I mean the real weeds – like vetch, kudzu, and honeysuckle. Which can look or even smell pretty, but choke the life out of all they grow up beside.

I also like to muse just about gardening! It is my favorite hobby that I have the least time for.

Sigh!

Right now, although it is below freezing, I have lettuce, chard, beets, carrots and peas struggling for existence in my back yard, raised beds. I haven’t had hardly anytime to even LOOK at them with the Christmas holidays. But yesterday I went out to harvest some before the freeze hit and I was able to gather late cilantro (which went right into some guacamole), chard, carrot thinnings and some of the hugest kohlrabi I’ve ever seen. I wonder if letting them grow so long will make them bitter. I’ll let you know.