Starting a Vegetable Garden.

How to grow vegetables for home canning and preserving.

Starting a vegetable garden, a good idea in questionable times! How to grow vegetables for home canning and preserving. Growing vegetables for the home gardener.

Once upon a time I thought I'd never be a "real" vegetable gardener. I knew nothing about how to grow vegetables. But I loved the idea of growing my own food for my family.

My husband however grew up gardening and remembers HATING the work involved. LOL! But he also now recognizes the benefits that experience gave him. With his help I've learned how to grow vegetables.

And with the help of canning books, experience, and friends I've learned the art of home canning and preserving.

I must add that where I live we have hard packed clay dirt. I don't even call it soil, it's DIRT.

As you look through my pages you will notice I plant in trenches in order to focus my watering efforts at the roots of plants. Raised beds don't work for me. My dirt is not dark and lovely to look at and run your fingers through. No picture perfect gardens here.

But you know what?! I manage to grow enough to feed my family year after year. If I can learn to garden in this type of dirt. I assure you, you can learn to garden too!