Gardening Love

The gardening love just keeps spreading on Oakmont. JoAnn, a sweet friend from teaching, and her husband Dewayne put in our garden using recycled materials from their gardens as a house warming present - the best present - three years ago, and since, we've planted (and enjoyed) tomatoes, broccoli, kale, squash, cucumbers, spinach, arugula, garlic, onions, basil, cilantro, rosemary, okra and so much more. They also dropped off a rain barrel, so that we could water our garden with that earthy goodness. And oh man, there's not much better than rain-watered, garden-fresh veggies.

Gardening love spread quickly at our house. Stan was in love at first dig and has eagerly helped plant all our seasonal fare. Just point to the ground and he'll dig you the perfect hole. Good dog! And this fall Charlie jumped into the action. We picked up veggies for our winter garden at the Natural Gardener with our friends who were prepping their first winter garden (more gardening love!) and sat outside on a drizzly October day delightfully planting away. And this week our garden love grew a little more when our garden somehow got even cooler with a central composter. Dewayne - the Organic Green Doctor - blogged about creating a key-hole garden, and I was immediately in love. Dewayne, without hesitation, offered to make us a central composter and install it in our garden, once again using recycled materials from his garden. Now that's real garden love! Because of Dewayne's generosity, not only will we be wasting less, but that rich, nutritious compost will constantly flow out into our garden. Genius. Pure gardening genius.