Testing
Spring is here, almost gone, and around these parts, blossoms are giving way to lush greenery, making almost everything bearable. This weekend was the annual "return to your roots" weekend, and my dad and I grabbed the farmin' impedimenta and set off down the hill to plant this season's 'maters.
I have for years been trying to disabuse my dad of a notion I think is common among his generation, and what has become a personal mantra for him:
"If one is good, ten is better."
Mix that with his belief in better gardening through chemicals, and you are � more often than not � staring disaster in the face. I recall a particular incident involving lawn fertilizer, a failure to read directions, and a summer of completely dead grass.
I started out this growing year determined to show him a better way, and last November, I started a compost pile. Truth be told, I started this compost pile because I didn't want to carry 20 bags of grass clippings and leaves up a hill, but it turns out, my laziness paid off, and we had loads of good, fertile, worm-filled soil to work with this season. incomplete
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