What a proud Dirt Diva I was last year when I had the chance to work with these new gardeners and help them achieve their goal of self-sufficiency, feeding themselves and their neighbors (and co-workers and family) from their very first veggie garden! Careful planning, full sun, deep beds of fertile soil, attentiveness, and timely weeding, watering, planting and harvesting all lead to a bumper year in the garden for this family. All the work was done by them, with crop layout and monthly oversight provided by me. I dubbed them garden parents, because they were so attentive to the needs of their garden, and that attention helped everything thrive, as you’ll see in the pics!