Weaknesses can become strengths

I heard about a great gardening seminar being held on our choice of several days in the near future, so Ken and I are going to go together. The guy running the seminar is a master gardener with what's called the Mittleider method. I guess you use less water, less soil (or no soil for hydroponic gardening), etc. There are different types they teach-container gardening, box gardening, hydroponic and more. Anyway, I'm actually excited about it because I want to grow our own vegetables and fruits, as many as possible. It's corn, potato, squash, cucumber, zucchini, beans, and melon season. I want to plant some basic herbs, too, but only the ones I use. Yes, I'm worried about what's happening in the world, but I also come from back east where produce was much fresher and tasted better than here-and it was less expensive, too. It costs us anywhere from $2-5 per dinner just for our vegetables here and they don't taste very good, so if we learn how to do this, we can eventually save money and eat better. I think we can grow lettuces, too...we eat lots of salad greens. We have a pretty big back yard for a suburban neighborhood in Phoenix; plenty of room to grow citrus, apples, grapes, and vegetables. The way I see it, why plant grass~we're not sheep, we don't eat grass! Let's use this back yard for food.

So the way I see it, the only reason I have a brown thumb is that I don't know what I'm doing, but I can learn. This is one weakness I want to become a strength.