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Jane and Ken are starting an adventure together using a blog to keep track of the story of their experience with a patio vegetable garden. They have two goals for this project. The first goal is to gain experience with blogging, and the second is to start and maintain a productive patio vegetable garden. 

Ken has a little bit of experience with blogging. He started a blog during the first weeks of the pandemic but was unable to sustain his effort. He continues to be interested in the notion of blogging and is hoping that he can develop and maintain better habits this time around. 

Ken and Jane maintained a small vegetable garden in the backyard of their previous residence. That garden wasn't very productive. Now, they live in a ground-level apartment with a very small patio. They are hoping that the Outdoor activity of gardening and the production of the garden will be rewarding.

This blog is going to be a sort of diary of our thought and actions as we start and maintain our patio vegetable garden. In addition to recounting our garden adventure we will keep track of the money we spend (and save) through the end of the season and in to winter. As Ken will be the principal writer of this blog, our story will be told from his first person perspective. For posts that Jane contributes, she will specify that the perspective is her first person.


The patio on a sunny April Fools Day


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