Lessons from a sunflower
When we bought our house, Husband and I had big plans for a grand vegetable garden in our backyard. We took steps to build large raise bed planters. We dug up the grass in them so we didn't have to worry about it growing through our tomato plants. Then...we stopped. Well, we didn't really stop, life happened. Eventually we dismantled the raised flower beds and repurposed the wood as a bench around the our fire pit, or maybe as a privacy fence blocking the neighbor's driveway...heck, maybe it was both. Either way, we dismantled and repurposed. At that point, I kind of figured we were done with the garden idea. We were never going to be the people picking vegetables from our own garden and making dinner with them. Fast forward several years, Husband changes jobs to be home more and decides to plan out an elaborate, beautiful garden of raised beds. He researches everything from what to plant when, to what to plant together, to how to start stuff from seed, to what raised beds
