After completing the novel "Farm City" by Novella Carpenter, I have finally been pressured into caring for a garden of my own. As small as ours is it will not produce much, but this is an experiment and a means to gain gardening experience for the day the City of Seattle will loan me a pea patch (10 x 10 ft community plot). Our garden currently consists of two flower planters hanging over the balcony (2 square ft) and a small circular pail (0.8 square ft) totaling nearly 3 square ft. Sarcastically HUGE, well big enough to have an herb garden and grow a few veggies on the side.
I have chosen a few local easy to grow plants to start with and they are currently poking their heads out of the soil. French Breakfast Radishes - heirloom. Rainbow Carrot Mix. They are originally from Bellingham, WA and soon will be in my belly and perhaps yours too.
Meet my friends the Radishes... and
Carrots
Andrea keeps asking me, "why again are you growing radishes? neither you nor myself eat them." I will eat them and if I do not, then perhaps I will give them as a gift to someone or to some people who are in need of food. They are great on tacos or in salads. Perhaps I will unearth my harvest, in a few weeks and just .... ^& crunch #@.... bite into it and bask in the glory of growing food for ourselves. Ah... the life of a farmer, and urban farmer.
