I got the annual letter in the mail Monday from the city, notifying me that it was time to renew my garden plots for the upcoming season.
The letter always catches me off-guard, particularly having just received snow over the weekend.
Then I get excited.
I’ve written about gardening many times in the past, but it’s something that I look forward to every year.
At the end of the season each year, I usually put it out of my mind for a couple months, and then I see something that gets me thinking about it, and the excitement begins to build again and again.
There’s just something special to me about taking a small seed (or a small plant) and with hard work, time and effort — and of course good sunshine, temperatures and water, too — watching it grow and produce fruit.
There’s also something special about pulling out a jar of homemade pizza sauce or green beans during the middle of winter that came from the garden.
The planning is also fun.
Some years I’ve mapped out my garden on paper with brightly colored markers and color-coded squares to see how I’m going to space out my vegetable plants; other years, I’ve decided to wing it and wait until the day I’m planting and just mentally rotate the location of where each plant was the year before.
Have you seen those memes about gardeners in a greenhouse during gardening season? It’s just plain fun getting all of the seeds, plants and other supplies needed to get started.
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