Lessons from the Garden

A few things I've learned so far, 6 weeks into our Backyard Project:

• If a seasoned gardener suggests a soil mixture to you, don't try to cut corners, heed his advice.
• The year you start a garden, expect a drought.
• Weeds, though green, have no place in the garden.
• Chicken poop smells worse than death and dogs eat it. 
• I can not grow squash, cilantro, nor apparently much else well except
• Grass.  I can grow grass.
• Perseverance.  These plants will not die...at least not yet.
• Smart people start with one or two vegetable beds.  I am not smart.

I am sure there will be more lessons from the garden.  Hopefully they aren't as painful as the ones I've learned so far.