My friend and neighbor, Julie, has one of the best vegetable gardens I've seen. She says most of the veggies her family eats ALL YEAR come from her garden. That's impressive. A few years ago she shared with me a garden tip that has become one of my favorites. When her children were young, in order to keep them enthusiastic about helping with the garden, she allowed them to pick out something new to try growing each year. It might be a totally new vegetable or simply a new variety of an old favorite. She said her kids loved looking through seed racks to choose their new "adventure" plant, and anticipating the harvest kept them happy about helping in the garden all summer. I have found this trick also works for grown-up children like me. Ever since Julie told me about this, I have been choosing an "adventure" plant each year to grow in my own garden. There have been some failures--chard grew just fine, but I didn't like eating it--but there have been s
