Why did you start a garden?

I started gardening way back because that is what my grandparents did. And then I experienced the superior taste of homegrown food. I let gardening fall by the wayside for awhile, but then I came back to it for preparedness reasons. Now I do it because of the superior taste. Well, my wife gardens and I help her.

Speaking of taste, I had another new experience this year. We have grown potatoes before, and they have tasted like potatoes. This year our potatoes tasted better, better than any commercial potato I have ever tasted. I didn't know that could happen. In the past we have mounded our potatoes with horse manure. This year we mounded them with finished compost that we bought.