I’ll take muddy boots over paper cuts any day.

I hope you will forgive me for being away for so long folks, I have been buried knee-deep in paperwork instead of in the soil where I would much rather be and yet I can’t complain too loudly because I am nearly at the halfway point in writing my new book on urban gardening!  The first three chapters are wrapped up and now I am working on the real meat of this book where people will be able to get their urban hands dirty and maybe even get some dirt under those well-manicured nails.

For those who are interested, my book will be in the can by March and will be published a year from now, just before the holidays in 2010.  I will of course be keeping you up-to-date here as things progress.

One of the tough aspects of this project that I didn’t foresee was how difficult it would be to write about gardening when my own garden was waning (i.e. it is Autumn and we had some particularly harsh weather this year).  I guess it is a true test of my abilities as a writer to be able to write an uplifting, energetic and informative book when the ground isn’t far away from the first freeze.

In other news

I don’t want to end this on a bad note so I have to talk about the 36 dozen Clemson Spineless okra seeds I was able to harvest and package as well the Ambrosia cantaloupe mentioned previously.  As soon as I have a chance to breathe I am going to put some garlic in the ground for a Spring harvest and begin the layout for the Spring 2010 community garden.

Tags: book, urban gardening