Gardening is tough work. Lifting and moving shovels heavy with dirt. Pushing wheelbarrows so dense with stuff the tire sinks into the grass. You’re on your knees weeding, you’re on a ladder pruning, some Saturday afternoons you would rather sit in the hammock and sip something cold, but no, the roses need to be fed. And then there is the technical work: Testing the soil’s Ph level, figuring out what to put in the holes (egg shells? a dead fish? sugar?) before you plant the tomatoes, trying to come up with a trellis that makes sense for your grapevine.
What you need, among other things, is a partner, somebody else doing the same thing, somebody with whom you can relate, gardening-wise. You can’t go wrong with , one family’s (exhaustive!) website about their rural patch in the middle of Los Angeles. The climate does not correspond with Denver’s. But it doesn’t matter. You are a gardener, and you can relate. And this partner comes loaded with hundreds of tips. Douglas Brown, The Denver Post
