Welcome to A Garden Geek

I'm just an average geek. I like computers, sci-fi, and telling my wife about a cool algorithm I tried out at work until her ears start to bleed and she cries, "no, no, please make it stop."

Lately, though, I've been feeling the need to do something that is very different from the world of abstractions that is my work and, for the most part, my hobbies. I mean, how many linux transcoding media servers can a man set up until he asks himself, "what is the point?"

I want to do something more fundamental -- something I know nothing about and will probably not be very good at.

Thus, I am going to turn our back yard into a fantastic garden. I will grow vegetables, I will plant bushes, I will create beautiful walkways. Well, at least I'll try.

"A Garden Geek" is a chronicle of my journey. I plan to start with:

• laying some mulch around my trees and shrubs
• creating some nice edging around those mulch islands
• creating walking paths
• creating a vegetable garden within a raised bed.

Just a few weeks until I need to start planting, so I best get started.