The First Blog

This will be my very first blog. Sure I have written many other blogs on Myspace and Facebook, but this blog is different. This blog will be about our garden. I have been growing veggies for over 20 years now, but for the last 2 years the vegetable patch has been here in Central Florida. Home of sand. LOL We moved from the Georgia/Alabama state line, from a little known place called Columbus. In Columbus you deal with Georgia red clay and with about only 4-5 months of growing time. So moving to Florida was a growing shock. We live on an acre of land with most of it being behind our house. We have a small veggie patch with 4 1/2 raised beds and then we have around a half acre in what we call our very back yard. We hope and are in the planning stages of turning the very back into our own little sanctuary. As for the garden patch it has strawberries, spinach's, lettuces, collards, onions, turnips, broccoli, and cauliflower planted in it right now. We are still getting use to planting in sand, but the raised beds have pretty much fixed that problem. We also use the square foot garden method that helps us to have lots of space.

So you may ask yourself why we decided to make another blog with all the blogs out there in the world wide web. Well about 6 months ago we started looking for more information on planting in Central Fl. We wanted more info from people, not books. Now don't get us wrong, we love books (more then you will ever know lol) and books are full of wonderful information, but sometimes you want to hear it (or read it) from someones own mouth. Someone who lives in your town or at least near you. Well we looked and we search, but the closes we came to was a blog from Orlando about 45 miles away from us. Also that blog was about flowers, not veggies, and I can't grow a flower to save my life, but I have a green thumb when it comes to veggies! Now Orlando is not THAT far away but anyone who has lived in Florida can tell you the weather between this neighborhood and the next one can be two different things. If you happen to know of a vegetable blog, please let us know!

So after about a month of thinking about the pro's and con's of doing this blog, we decided to go for it. What could it hurt? It can help other people out there with info of growing veggies and if nothing else it can give us a written diary of our gardening experience. So we hope that you enjoy our gardening blog and come back often!

L and D
The Vegetable Hatt