Kate Solusar’s Holocron

It’s spring and time to play in the garden in the yard.  At first, we started with annuals, but have now worked our way into perennial gardening.  We still plant annuals, but it’s been more fun to work out more long-term plans with plants that return each year.  It’s been quite an experience learning about various plants, what works best where and how to tend to each plant’s specific and unique needs.  Right now, my spouse and I are working on trying to get our flower gardens to have something in bloom from spring through the fall.  It’s been fun working that out and trying to make that possible.  We are also working on establishing a shade garden in the back yard.  We have an area under some pine trees that we thought might be a great location to plant some shade loving plants and flowers.  We’ve borrowed my in-laws’ rototiller and are working to emend the soil so that it will be a good place to plant.

We also have begun to establish a vegetable garden as well.  We cooperate with some friends of ours and my in-laws, to share the bounty between us and grow different things so that we can share our harvests with each other.  I am really looking forward to this very much and if our bounty is too much for our three families, our friends have connections to a community gardening cooperative that gives produce to the needy, so we can share with them also.  Waste not, want not.  It’s a small-scale project, but I really like its cooperative nature and how we can all try our hands at various types of veggies.  My in-laws are great with squash and eggplant and have been even growing asparagus.  They also are the herb gardeners as well.  They also grow grapes and raspberries as well.  We are tomato, strawberry, and hopefully this year bean, pepper, and cucumber growers as well.  We also have wild blackberry patches and some blueberries as well.  We tend to leave those to our fine-feathered friends, but have enjoyed them as well.  Our friends are great with brussel sprouts, broccoli, lettuce, and beets.  So as you can see, I am really excited and looking forward to the growing season.  What’s also wonderful is that my two sons get to help and watch plants grow from seed to harvest.  It makes the vegetables somehow more appealing and they are more willing to eat them as well.  All in all, it’s a great thing and a wonderful way to connect with the Living Force.