The Real Dirt on Farmer John

Owen isn't the only thing we are growing around here. John has been hard at work fulfilling a longtime dream of having his very own garden. John, by the way, dreams big. Our neighbor keeps popping his head over the fence to say, "That is a really big garden." Having never gardened before, I didn't quite get the glint in his eye. That is until our seeds arrived and I realized that 50 broccoli seeds don't even cover the surface of a dime. Our other neighbors have decided to forgo a garden this year because they think we will have such a cornucopia of produce, we will be begging them to take some. So far, we have planted spinach, peas, little gem lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli raab, and strawberries. John and Owen do a "garden report" every evening (twice on the weekends) to see what has popped up since the day before and John is wondering if he can build a gardencam to capture germination in progress. If this goes well, John will be on to his next dream..raising chickens.