Apr 15, 2012 9:00 AM

How Does Your (First Time) Garden Grow?

I can discuss the finer points of Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, and Goliath tomatoes. I can identify lady bug eggs and tree hopper nymphs and a pickleworm. Pruning fruit trees? Organic pest control? Compost? Be still my heart. While I'm still learning about gardening in this new climate of mine, I can certainly answer some of Ariane's questions.

A recent GeekMom conversation turned to gardening when GeekMom Ariane shared this:

I just bought my first house and we have our very first yard. We've been taking a lot of plants out (that were dead or not looking too great or too dangerously thorny for a 2-year-old to play around) and replacing with fruits and vegetable plants. My husband even built us a little raised vegetable garden box. We really like the idea of having a very functional garden that will produce lots of food, though our yard isn't very large. We have NO CLUE what we're doing.

I've admitted here on GeekMom that I don't have a geeky passion for Star Wars or Star Trek or gaming, but you want to talk gardening? I can discuss the finer points of Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, and Goliath tomatoes. I can identify lady bug eggs and tree hopper nymphs and a pickleworm. Pruning fruit trees? Organic pest control? Compost? Be still my heart. While I'm still learning about gardening in this new climate of mine, I can certainly answer some of Ariane's questions.

[To learn more about first-time gardening, read the rest of Kris Bordessa's post over at GeekMom!]

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