“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.” - Alfred Austin
Though I grew up in the ‘Garden City’ of India, I had no particular affinity for plants. My family had always lived in apartments, and we didn’t grow anything. Even in the USA, I didn’t dare to grow anything when we were renting. It’s only when we bought our first home 8 years ago that I braved and took the plunge. This home had two yards, but both were covered in concrete! Still, I really wanted to grow some food and discovered that I could do it in bags made from landscape fabric! Thanks to some sewing skills, I made several bags easily. Then we filled them up with soil and planted some baby strawberry plants and radish seeds! All this when I was about 7 months pregnant! Soon, we had baby no.2 take over our garden, haha!
Our first yield of radishes!
Our budding gardener :)
Four years later, in 2021, we moved to our current home, which was a newly built one. It took us a year to find a landscaper and get some basic landscaping done. We were very excited about all the space and potential our new yard offered, but we initially started gardening in our retaining wall beds.
Our baby, now a little boy, sowing the first seeds in our garden beds in 2022. Unfortunately, we couldn’t care for our garden much that year as we were gone for several weeks that Summer.
