Getting started

This year I decided that I would attempt to have a garden.  I mean really, have you tasted those tomatoes they sell at the grocery store?

			Yes, I am a fairly young man of only 61 years, yet I still remember the taste of real tomatoes from when I was a kid. That was way back when most of the vegetables sold in the store were locally grown and really had a great flavor. I am disable with a pretty severe heart condition from eating way to much fried foods and then fast foods in a time that all the health awareness was not as intense as it is today. So I was just going to try to grow some tomatoes, and maybe a few cucumbers. Being a complete novice at gardening, I had no tools to even begin gardening. First thing I did was go and buy myself a shovel and a hoe, and went out behind my house and was going to turn over enough ground to plant a couple three

 tomatoes and a cucumber or two.  Well I am going to ell you one thing for certain, that shovel and my heart condition did not go well together.

I had recently signed up for a web site called freecycle, which is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns... It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills, and lo and behold someone posted they had a rear tine tiller they would give away. (Didn't work when I got it, and ended up costing me a couple hundred for a new motor, but what a heart saver and well worth every penny.)

As you might see in the photograph above those couple three tomatoes and a cucumber or two has grown considerably.