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Seeing this article was so funny, since I’m starting a garden for the first time this year. Mostly it’s for fun, but also because some fruits/vegetables have become so expensive, the only way we’ll eat them is if they are growing in the backyard.

I’m limiting what I’m starting with, so I haven’t gotten to garlic yet. I love garlic, but figured I’d see if I could grow an onion first.

I was raised in a military family. My folks were raised in the Oklahoma hills during the depression. Everywhere we lived, my dad (an officer) planted a garden. When I was 4 yo, he came home from work and raced me out to the garden. We pulled up carrots, washed them with the garden hose, and ate like pigs!! I was hooked on gardening from then on.

My husband was raised in the country, the back woods. When we were in college struggling with two kids... that multiplied to 5... we raised almost everything we ate. I canned, froze and dehydrated what seemed like forever. Once, hubby came home with two huge black garbage bags FULL of turnip greens. I was suppose to wash them, rinse them, wash them, rinse them, repeat-repeat, then blanch them and freeze them. It was taking forever. I stuck them in the washing machine on "gentle cycle"... big mistake. We wore greens for months... got stuck in those little holes in the washer tub.

Hubby has been tranferred a lot over our 30+ year marriage. I always had a "portable garden" in pots or containers. We love fresh vegetables!

You are right about the price of stuff, it's ridiculous! Good luck with your gardening! It's fun, and rewarding!

Garlic has so many health benefits, and I love to cook with it. Onions, chives, shallots, leeks and garlic are easy to grow!