First Dirt

Posted on Friday 18 April 2008 at 06:12

I spent two hours digging over a flowerbed today. For the last two years, my beds have suffered serious neglect in favour of the market garden. Now that I'm no longer doing that...well, actually, I feel like myself again.

One of the reasons I quit the market garden was that it was killing my enjoyment of horticulture. The other was that it just didn't pay. For less work, I can save way more money off the food bill than what people were paying me to garden for them. Plus, no weekly hour-long drive, and no Mr. Ornery Customer (I only had one of those types, but he was an amazing jerk).

So, today was the first day of the rest of my season. I'm not starting seedlings this year. I'm actually looking forward to my yard. I'm looking forward to having time for flowers again. As an online pal told me back when I started at this place, "Vegetables are for the body. But flowers are for the soul."