About our Lansing Garden:
Oscar and Diana moved to Lansing in 2017 after purchasing a home on 1/10th of an acre. They each have food allergies, and prefer the intense flavors of organic and ultra-fresh produce.
Oscar did garden tasks as assigned while growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s but didn’t really value or learn about gardening in a useful manner. Since then he has attempted gardening twice with mixed results – the vegetable garden he tried one year was about 8x12 feet and the only crop he got was about half a dozen bell peppers. Later, the flower gardening from 3 homes ago went pretty well, but the only edibles were currants, gooseberries, and black raspberries. The black raspberries were very vigorous but produced for about 2 weeks a year and needed to be well watered during that season if they were to be good berries, and the currants and gooseberries did well for a year or two but eventually succumbed to an insect infestation.
Diana grew up in the country and her family always had a garden growing up. She has a degree in Resource Development which was part of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She has gardened before, but this is the biggest gardening project for edibles she has ever attempted.
The Lansing Garden posts will be about our successes, failures, opinions, reviews of plant varieties, products and ideas, and in general about our attempts to improve our groceries. The first year will probably not be as cost effective as just buying everything organic from stores and local farmers, but we will be trying varieties of produce that are not typically available. For various reasons, a LOT of our gardening will be in containers, but in addition to the gardening at our home, Oscar is also signed up for a Community Garden plot about 6 blocks from home.
1 comment:
Good luck with your gardening! It looks like you're off to a lovely start.
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