Victory Gardens came about in the 40's as a way to encourage American's to grow their own during the war and when food was not plentiful. Rationed. I couldn't imagine that today, but after reading about Victory Gardens, my husband was inspired. We would consider ourselves "intermediate" gardeners. He is the expert tomato guy and me...well, I like flowers in containers. We can keep things growing when we have the energy and time. And we can also kill things, when too much of the outside world calls our name. We've made this a family project. Are we up to the challenge of the hard work? We are starting small, and working o
n a square foot gardening project, which we have tried before. Our success previous years were fun, but small.Here is work from today. This will likely be a weekend project, with the girl's and I doing maintenance during the week, and the boy's doing the "grunt" work on the weekends.
We are working on a list of winter veggies to grow. So far for our Florida climate it is safe to say we will start with squash, cabbage, beets and carrots. The boys worked so hard all day.
