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A New Gardening Year
New Year’s is a great opportunity to think about your gardening plans for the next year. We have months of cool and warm weather left before our oppressive summer heat sets in, plenty of time to grow cool season veggies and start planning for summer favorites like tomatoes and peppers. There’s time to order potatoes, which are delicious fresh from the garden and easy to grow. It’s fun to page through the seed catalogs and figure out which new varieties you might like to try…in my case, sadly incompatible with the amount of space I have!
The new year brings some big garden decisions at our house. We received the sad news this fall that Bee Natural, the CSA we’ve been members of for the past two years, is closing the doors on its CSA business. That means we’ve lost our major source of local food, and we’re now considering our options. We could expand our garden to a small or large degree; we could devote more of our food dollars to spending during the limited farmers market season; we could take more advantage of local pick-your-own options; or some combination of the above.
To give you some inspiration for your garden plans, here’s Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, delivering his TED talk in October on the revolutionary potential of gardening: