pumpkins, compact cars and my wildest fantasies

Seed starts in segments of toilet paper and paper towel rolls.

Every year, I entertain fantasies of an abundant urban homestead.

I envision crowds of smiling friends and neighbors dancing with glee in a circle around me as we celebrate the record-breaking size of my harvest...

...Okay so I only have 32 square feet of garden space
(imagine a king sized bed and you've actually imagined too big).

They say there is some power to positive thinking.

So here I go again barreling into another spring with dozens of seed packets and a dream.

Hundreds of blueberries WILL pop off of each of my three bushes.

There WILL be a pumpkin the size of a compact car begging me to make a pie.

TO BE CONTINUED...