How do you learn to garden?
It was the custom for gardeners to invest their labors and achievements with a mystery and secrecy which might well have discouraged any amateur from trespassing upon such difficult ground.
"Trade secrets" in either flower or vegetable growing were acquired by the apprentice only through practice and observation, and in turn jealously guarded by him until passed on to some younger brother in the profession.
Every garden operation was made to seem a wonderful and difficult undertaking. If you are a beginning you will not do just as well as the experienced gardener. However, you can lear by talking to other growers.
This garden business is a matter of common sense; and the man, or the woman, who has learned by experience how to do a thing, whether it is cornering the market or growing cabbages, naturally does it better than the one who has not. Do not expect the impossible the first time, look and learn.
This time of year, you need to make a plan.
What do you want? Better food, better health, better living--all these the home garden offers you in abundance.
Write down what you eat and read about times of sowing etc and get on with it.
A word of warning: Do not grow too much...only you know how much time you have.
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