April 3, 2012

Today we had class at our Community Garden and were able to see the plot that our group would be working on for the quarter. The plot is not that big but it still need a lot of time for the up keep. Our plot currently is all covered in weeds..so it will definitely be interesting to see how my group and the others in my class do with gardening. I personally have gardened before. Both of my parents love to garden and when I was younger I would help them out all the time. So I think that will help me in this class since I already know about plants and how to know what they need and do not need. I think planting this garden will be a different experience. I think it is neat that people from the Athens community can pay $25 for a plot and then tend to their own gardens and grow their own crops. I mean if you do not have the land of your own and you just pay, you can still save yourself a lot of money by planting your own vegetables. I mean I can easily spend $25 in one trip to the grocery store if I got all the fruits and vegetables that I actually wanted. I had never heard or seen the garden before so I think it will be fun to meet all the different people from the community that come to this garden and to see all the different types of plants that people are growing. I do want to grow my own plants so I think this will be a great start to learning how I can do this on my own once I am out of college.