It's been a month since I started planting seeds outside, and only a week or two since I transplanted my tomatoes and peppers. However...I already know that I love to garden! My mother has likened me to my amazing, late Oma (great grandmother in German). She used to have her entire backyard filled with bushes of raspberries, blackberries, and other vegetables my mother could pick to her own delight. My two aunts from my Dad's side also garden. So in all likelihood, there is a strong genetic component to this new hobby of mine.

All that aside...I just keep wanting to add more vegetables, but where is the space? So many vegetable need full sun, and despite my desire to stick them where that is best possible (right smack in the middle of the backyard) my parents are strongly opposed to the notion. So we are left sticking the new raspberry bush and asparagus amongst unsuspecting flowering bushes and spider plants. I suppose this isn't much different than placing most of the big boy tomato plants (kindly donated to me by a much more experienced gardener) around/under a birch tree. Who knows...maybe these crazy setups might turn out to be incredibly brilliant!

All I know is that they will have to suffice. That is until I have my own yard to create a vegetable garden utopia! Like the guy and his family in Pasadena....
http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/Garden/2006-05-01/Pasadena-paradise.aspx

I doubt I will ever be able to take it that far, but it would be fun to try!