Gardening is like jogging. It’s a solo type of activity that we can share with others.
I believe most of us have a love for gardening, yet it seems that in America we are so caught up with the ‘modern world’ that our ‘old world’ traditions seem to be disappearing. I think that for most of us as we acquire more free time away from the 9 to 5 tick tock we return to sharing our relationship with earth.
I share stories with so many people from around the world, and still in other countries such as Europe many people still have the traditional home vegetable garden. There are so many lessons we miss out by not being involved in tending a vegetable garden.
We learned a big lesson about raised bed gardening. George had this great idea of having our vegetable garden in raised beds – well, after five years we learned that wood is not really a long term solution and second… the vegetable garden should not be far away from your kitchen door (unless you create a magic garden that you want to escape too).
Aside from sweet potatoes, oranges, bananas… peanuts are my next fun garden food to grow.
1. They don’t fuss too much and love sandy soil and lots of sun.
2. They are perennials which make an excellent temporary 6″ hedge (which will last about 4 to 5 months)
3. Being in the legume family they give back nitrogen to the soil.
4. Peanuts a super food… raw, roasted, boiled.
I started with 10 peanuts, just because I wanted to see how to incorporate peanuts in my edible landscape. I had a pretty good harvest, each plant gave me twenty to thirty peanuts. Pretty good return!
Nature is pretty amazing indeed, as I pulled up the plants lo-and-behold little sprouts were all over the place.
Hope you come back and check out what else earth is teaching me.
