My journal is these weekly posts as I'm telling the truth of what happens every week. I have hated dirt since I was a child. My parents would not believe what I am doing now.
The garden is my complete focus. I work and plan and research different heirloom plants that will grow here in southeast Texas and study how to do it. When I need to know something, I beat it to death until I know it.
Watching the actual plants grow is new to me, like the squash plants. That is an heirloom round squash. I also need to nail down what to grow in spring and in the fall. I don't have that decided yet.
I must know how to grow food without killing myself doing it.
I read what bad physical condition some of you are in and wonder how you manage to keep going and growing food. That is an inspiration to me not to give up.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. All big tasks can be broken down into smaller segments. My raised beds allow me to garden in 10 minute increments.
So when I get really lazy or really sick and/or tired. I decide which ten minute task I will do. Sometimes, after I get going for just that ten minutes, I feel better and decide to just do another ten and so forth.
Sometimes I just make do with one ten minute chore and then go rest. I am not going to kill myself gardening-that would defeat the purpose.LOL