Spring is coming....

...or so they tell me. And once again I ponder having a vegetable garden. I ponder it every spring. Sometimes I have pondered it for nearly two days in a row. I actually did have a vegetable garden once. It was fairly amusing. We ended up with many giant zucchinis that no one really wanted after August even though they grew as large as some sort of plant from this ancient TV show that only I seem to remember. Who wouldn't want squash as big as baseball bats? Many people, apparently. There were also far too many tomatoes. Nothing much else we planted came up or survived long. I am not gifted with the greenest of thumbs.

My parents , on the other hand(s) seemed to have many green thumbs. The pictures below are from the mid 70s when my parents lived in a two hundred year old house that my dad refurbished as a retirement project. And they also grew large plants.





So, I think this year I will at least research growing things to eat. Seems like the right thing to do ( which almost guarantees that I won't do it ). There is a movement on to get the new president and his lovely family to plant one of these on the white house lawn. It's kind of a neat idea. Apparently there is even a facebook group encouraging this. But then there is a facebook group for everything in the known universe.

So, anyone out there have any good suggestions for instructional books on Vegetable Gardening For The Not Especially Talented And Not All That Motivated? Suggestions appreciated.