Every garden has a day one. This isn't it. This is day zero — and I want to be honest about just how day zero it really is.
In fact, I'm not even home as I write this. I'm in Minnesota right now, and next week I'm heading to Japan. So not only is nothing planted — I won't even be in the same hemisphere as my yard for a while. Day one is realistically a few weeks away. That's how early we are.
As of today, I have almost nothing. No seeds. No raised beds, no trellises, nothing sitting in the garage waiting to be used. I haven't bought a single bag of anything. What I do have is a yard in Central Florida, the palm trees I've been growing, and a whole lot of intention.
Here's the plan: I work at AgriEnergy Solutions, a company built around biological and sustainable products for the soil. The heart of this project is the garden — the one I haven't built yet. That's where the real story happens: I'll be running genuine side-by-side trials, with treated and untreated plants growing right next to each other, so we can actually see the difference these products make. Along the way I'll be treating my palm trees, flowers, and bushes too, but the garden trials are the main event.
That means you'll get to see everything: picking out what to grow, buying the first seeds and materials, figuring out what Central Florida sand actually needs, building the beds, laying out the trial rows, and comparing results as the season goes on. The wins and the flops — all of it goes in the log.
So that's the starting line. Nothing in the ground, nothing in the shed, everything still ahead.
Let's grow.