If April Showers Bring May Flowers, What Do May Showers Bring?

IMPORTANT NOTE: On Saturday 5/15/09 at 12:00 p.m. EST I will be a guest of Katy Copsey, host of America’s Home Grown Veggie Hour on a local Internet radio show on Radio Sandy Springs where we will talk about community gardening.  You can listen to the show live from the website, so please tune in.

It Takes a Community

What an insane month it has been here at MEGHQ  My writing projects have largely had to take a back seat to the founding of the new Riverside Community Garden in my neighborhood here in the upper west side of Atlanta.  The good part is that not only have I accomplished the beginnings of the garden, it happens to be right across the street from my house so I can sit at my desk and literally watch the garden grow.  Sometimes it is really good to be me!

The weather has been predictably unpredictable this season thus far and the years of drought conditions have more than prepared us to receive the tremendous influx of rain we’ve had already.  I just hope the weather cooperates with me enough to get the garden tilled a second time next week so that we can get some plants in the ground before the end of the month.

Seriously though, we need the rain, but I just hope it doesn’t work against the gardeners too terribly much.  I’ve been quite gun shy about planting this year having started the season so late with an April 1st move to Atlanta that left me no time to start my own seedlings.

Back to the good news:  Support for the community garden has been tremendous with more than 15 plots reserved before we even broke ground, so needless to say I am really excited to see what this season holds for us!

In Other News

• While I cannot divulge too many details just yet, I am currently in negotiations with a publisher about writing a book on urban gardening.  Yeah, seriously excited about that.
• If you aren’t already, you’re welcome to follow me on Twitter .
• Love you.  Mean it.  TGIF and have a GREAT weekend!