Spend a few minutes talking to some experienced gardeners about advice for newbies to the gardening world and undoubtedly the first thing they’ll say is “start small.”  This past February, I decided to chuck all that advice out the window and just go for it, building the biggest garden I could afford in terms of space and money in my backyard in the SW hills of Portland, Oregon.  I’m a rebel, what can I say? Some people only learn through trying things on their own and seeing what works and what doesn’t.

Through this blog, I hope to detail my trials and tribulations as I start from the trenches of newbie-dom and rise to peak of master gardner, providing all the vegetables required to sustain my family.  Ultimately, I’d like to do everything organically, but I’ll probably have to take baby steps to get there.  Who knows?  Maybe I’ll build this thing from a loyal following of one (thanks, Mom!) and find some other like-minded and more experienced gardeners that can help me from killing everything I plant.

My garden adventure is already 3 months in, so stay tuned for some details on my adventure thus far!

-Austen