garden!

[keryx]

I got a start on the back garden today!

Well. Technically, this afternoon I interviewed a garden coach. I'd been thinking "gosh, if only I could get someone to start the garden and tell me how to use it"... and? The local garden co-op will do that! You have to, you know, pay them, but it's a lot cheaper than landscaping (though perhaps less conventionally beautiful) and more useful. We're going to start setting up beds and build a cold frame this weekend.

Later we'll do summer vegetables and start some fruit trees. Meanwhile, the figs and grapes I bought thinking they'd stay dormant in my house until planting time are absolutely the opposite of dormant. One of the grapes is plotting to take over the kitchen. I suspect it's recruiting the other plants as comrades, Mme Defarge style.

Garden!

Comments

[luguvalium.livejournal.com]

I warn you, she will want to cut down all the trees in the backyard

[quietdeath.livejournal.com]

Not true. But I will tell you that if there is all shade in your yard, then growing veggies will be terribly difficult/impossible.

Besides... it's the back 5 pine trees on the other side of the main fenced yard. Really Lug... not even I need that much wood.

;)

[arovd.livejournal.com]

no my potential veggie garden is full sun! i built the box on the south side of the house, right in the sunny spot!! i tried to grow veggies in the backyard and that did not work at all.

[quietdeath.livejournal.com]

Full sun is best, and it is possible to make some beautiful food in your own yard with a little bit of love and work.