As you all know, I love to garden.  Mainly I grow food.  I found a couple of articles about gardening that are interesting.  The first claims that food grown today is less nutritious than it used to be.  This may be due to planting higher yielding plants and fertilizing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090219/hl_time/08599188014500

I’m not totally organic–I do fertilize.  But I also mulch out the ying-yang and I’m constantly rotating and tilling.

The second article is a neat project that turns front lawns into productive gardens.  I will say that my garden looks *nothing* like the landscaped beauty in the picture.  I am a hodgepodge gardener.  It goes in where it fits.  It gets crowded in there (very crowded).  Things get moved, picked…and not trimmed often enough.  I’ve always resented having to waste water on the front lawn.  It never looks that great anyway–in Texas it is simply too hot to have a lush yard.   In order to have a lawn, the grass has to be more like crabgrass–able to survive heat, droughts and foot traffic.  This is not the lawn of the picture books that you get to roll on.  Roll on a Texas lawn and you’re likely to get bruised–and eaten by fire ants.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1816764,00.html

Does anyone want to hear about my cucumber plants sprouting?  No?  Come on!  You know you want to plant something!

(I was going to post a picture of my blueberry bush.  It’s blooming.  The problem is that it only has blossoms and no leaves.  In the sunshine blue type, the flowers for the fruit show up before the leaves.  This results in pretty flowers on what appears to be a dead bush…)