8 August 2012

I don't know if you can see our future garden staked out in the backyard in this photo...  We recently had a friend of mine from Iowa over for dinner, and he reminded us of one of our favorite things about Iowa when he said, 'oh, you're planning a garden?  what are you going to plant?' and told us how he and his college buddies grew peppers in the yard of their bachelor pad when he lived in Davenport.  In Iowa, the easiest way to start a conversation with a stranger is to ask what they're growing this year, because everyone has a garden, even if it's just tomatoes in a pot on the porch.