MAY To many gardeners May is the busiest, and best, month in the garden. It’s the time of year when you can finally get out there and start the cleanup – and the results are of all your hard work are quickly obvious and satisfying. It’s the month when you can get down to planting your summer crops of vegetables and you can re-do your hanging baskets, your pots, and your perennial beds.
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The days are getting longer and the nights are getting warmer and everybody, it seems, is planting food! Lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, beets, chard, peas, leeks, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes – and there’s still room in that vegetable plot for carrots, onions and beans!
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If you’re old enough, you’ll remember back to late 1973 when the Arab Oil Embargo resulted in rapidly escalating gas prices and shortages. That was the start of a back-to-the-land movement when many of us became interested in food-production gardening, thinking “Maybe I’m going to have to know how to do this someday.” We sort of lost that motivation during the 80’s when the movement became back-to-the-office and home vegetable gardening began to decline and continued to decline through the 1990’s. When 2000 came around, vegetable gardening started to grow again slowly at first until the last two years when it’s really taken off – and again we’re thinking “Maybe I’m going to have to know how to do this someday.” |
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| There’s a great interest in having a local supply of food – buy your food within the county, state, country you live in – and even better, get it out of your own back yard. Not just for economic reasons – sure gas prices are higher and grocery store prices are sky-rocketing – but there’s a deeper reason to grow your own food – it’s good for the soul – it keeps you in touch with reality, brings you back to nature, improves your quality of life – it’s good, hard work and it makes you feel great – sore muscles, dirty fingernails and all! |
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| So use these summer months to do a little vegetable gardening. It doesn’t really take that much room to grow vegetables – many people have a wonderful crop in a half-barrel or two! At North Star Nursery we’ve got lots of ideas for growing food – stop by and see us – we’re happy to share. |
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