For years, I dreamed of having a garden. Vegetables, mostly, because I couldn’t quite see the appeal of working so hard unless you were going to get something delicious to eat as a result of all of your efforts. My father had a small vegetable garden for several years while I was growing up, my grandfather had a much larger vegetable garden that I still remember fondly, and my uncle now has a vegetable garden and several fruit trees. So I thought about it for the past six yea