How Is That Garden Growing?

One of these days I mean to plant some seeds—from a sunflower, a zucchini, a Chinese melon—with Charlie and follow the routines of watering and watching the skies and sun and looking for growth.

In Lake Elsinore, North Carolina, a vegetable garden is growing on the grounds of Canyon Lake Middle School. Adina Ross, who teaches special needs students, asked Home Depot for a few supplies–chicken wire and stakes—and the result was that a team of some 100 volunteers from nine Home Depot stores came to build sensory, vegetable, and butterfly gardens, as well as a playground, picnic tables, and a sandbox. As noted in yesterday’s North County Times, Home Depot chose to make the school a site for a project with Kaboom, a “national organization whose vision is to create a place to play within walking distance of every child in America.”

My grandfather liked to grow vegetables in the yard of the Sacramento home he built (with help from his children) and my parents had a pretty extensive vegetable garden when we lived in a certain northern California suburb—-we’re out here in New Jersey but it’s not called the Garden State for nothing.

Maybe we’ll start with an avocado seed.