Thru the Garden Gate...to Bradley's Spring Garden

I got an unexpected surprise a couple of weeks ago when my youngest son, Bradley who is now married with children. called to asked me about how to put in a vegetable garden. My first response was, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Bradley was the last of any of my children that I would even dream would be interested in a garden. When he was a child, every year when we were getting ready to plant the garden he wanted to know why we couldn't just buy our stuff at the store like everybody else. I told him how much fun it was to plant your own and watch it grow, how we can grow our food without all those chemicals, and how much cheaper it is to grow your own food, but all my explanations rolled across his little mind like water off a ducks back. And now he is serious about planting his own garden. (Who would've thunk it?) I've answered all kinds of gardening questions over the phone, his daddy and I went over on Saturday and helped him get the grass out of the garden spot and till the soil. Yesterday I went to the "feed and seed " to help him pick out the kind of seeds he needs. Bradley is now putting up the posts for the fence that will hopefully keep out all the critters. This fence is an absolute necessity, since the deer come into their yard by the droves, not to mention the raccoons and armadillo's. He has the entire plot laid out on graph paper and he is so excited about getting the seeds in the ground. And I'm so excited because this year I have two gardens.