baby steps...

well, i'm an absolute novice, but what i do have going for me are these things:

1. i'm cancerian (they are supposed to be good at gardening)

2. my folks used to be great gardeners before became inner-city dwellers, so advice and constructive criticism is certainly 'local' for me

3. i'm staying with them at the mo, and they have a little courtyard to their terrace that is north facing

mixing it up/ using my community

i want to get this right, so i'm thinking...permaculture...organics...locavore...heirloom seeds (what are they?) - y'know, all the buzz words...ended up procrastinating a bit...

then i surveyed my community, and realised the starting point was right next to me:

there's a guy at my work whose title is 'director of sustainability' - so, figuring that vegie knowledge may well fall into this category, i asked him 'how do i find out what to plant, when and what with?' he directed me to: http://www.gardenate.com

K.I.S.S.

ah yes - the antidote to procrastination: Keep. It. Simple. Stupid. 

So i read through the gardenate.com list of what to plant in june, in this region

Decided to pick *just one* to start - that way it didn't feel such a huge undertaking

looked through the items classed as 'easy' and, from there, chose the one i thought i'd use in cooking the most: the humble onion!

my dad is a vegetable: or, what are heirloom seeds???

where to buy onion seeds? well, i'd heard the term 'heirloom seeds' bandied about a bit, so i googled 'onion seeds - sydney - heirloom seeds' etc in vatous combinations and discovered: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/why-buy-heirloom-plants-seeds.html

very interesting

then i went here: http://www.diggers.com.au/

and ordered me some heirloom onion seeds

ta dah! i have begun.....