• Heartprints

    How does your garden grow?

    I have always wanted to have a garden. I would see friends post pictures of the vegetables they had grown on facebook and I “grew” a little envious. So a couple years ago, a friend helped me put in two small gardens. I planted tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, squash, blackberries and herbs. Each day my son and I would water it.  On weekends, we would weed it.  When nasty, little squash insects showed up; my son took care of that. Each week we would get more excited as our plants started to grow and take hold. It was our project–our garden. As little green sprouts grew and started to…