Loving wife Rose had a notion in spring 2009 to get back into gardening. She had not gardened since 1990 and Humble Blogger not since 1977!!
She rented a 12.5 ft. by 25 ft plot on a stretch of farmland called Meadowlark Community Organic Garden located near Stillwater, MN. We were among some 20 other gardeners with similar sized or larger gardens. A big plus for the gardens were two 800-1000 gallon water tanks plumbed with pipe and faucets scattered through the gardens. The tanks were filled, when necessary by one of the gardeners trained to operate the well pump some 100 yards away. There was even a garden dedicated to local food shelves.
Our garden required much hard work and produced a lot of vegetables for immediate use or canning. The financial cost was much greater than buying the same vegetables from a road-side stand. But that didn't matter because these were our vegetables! Our greatest single cost was the routine stopping at Dairy Queen for a chocolate covered cherry Blizzard (for Humble Blogger) and a hot fudge Sundae with walnuts (for Loving Wife) on the way home.
Humble Blogger kept carefully written notes and photo records of our garden's progress from May 1st to October 8 (after a surprise frost). The photo record is documented in the musical 6 min 53 sec slide show below.
The slideshow music consists of 3 royalty free original pieces by Keven Macleod at incompetech.com To be legal, I need only mention his name. I feel that the music fits the photos perfectly. The order of music in the slide show is:
"Somewhere Sunny" (Duet guitars, 1min 55sec)
"Water Droplets on the River" (Piano, "meant to be reminiscent of nice memories from long ago", 1min 45sec)
"Clear Air" (Acoustic steel string guitar and classical guitar, 3min 3sec). As the garden winds down, the music slows.
