I was raised in Ontario, Canada about 75km north of Toronto and we had a huge garden. Of course I was just a kid and perhaps the fact that I didn’t like weeding the garden made it seem a whole lot bigger. The vegetable garden however was big enough to keep us in veggies for the entire winter and some of the preserves lasted much longer than just one year.

Once I left home and started out on my own I didn’t think about gardening at all. But once I got the wild out me, somewhat, gardening became something I really wanted to do but then I was living in a little apartment on the 11th floor in Mississauga Ontario and didn’t really have the space.

Then I moved to New Brunswick Canada, eventually got married and then there were two of us that had the desire to garden but still didn’t have the space. Well after 20 years of marriage we finally bought a home with a yard and now we have our backyard garden and an ever growing vegetable garden. Each year I plant more and more and have more fun vegetable gardening here in New Brunswick.

We found out, along the way, that we could still have a vegetable container garden even though we had very little space. We used the edge of the apartment, where the driveway went, to put our potted vegetables, mostly tomatoes and just moved them to keep them in the best spot to get light.

Summer is over for 2010 and I am now using the cooler weather to dig up a new section of garden so we can grow about 3 or 4 times as much. Maybe some day our veggie garden will be as large as the vegetable garden we had on the farm when I was just a kid.

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