Growing Potatoes

Just a short note tonight about starting a potato garden. At this time of year potatoes like to grow and all they need is someone to plant them.

I am not a gardener. But I think that everyone should know something about gardening. It's embarrassing to be so removed from the natural flow of things that you don't know how to do basic gardening things. Like shoveling mulch into a sack, dumping it on your garden plot and spreading it around.

It's good to know that potatoes are simple vegetables. You just have to dig a trench and drop them in one by one about 6 - 8 inches apart and then cover up the trench with a mound of soil. You don't even have to cut up the potatoes or buy seeds or anything fancy. A potato is a humble and friendly vegetable.

So even if people make fun of you because you're growing potatoes -- this happened to me -- it is good to do it anyway. So what if potatoes are boring? One must make the first step to being a gardener.

So also in life. We take the first humble steps as we set out on a new course. We endure ridicule if it comes and hold our heads high. Because without those first steps, there is no new course.

I wish you many first steps and that many potatoes growing in your garden.