The Garden Along Our Place
by sam on June 21, 2010
in Abundance, Boulder, Family, Food, Friends, Health, Organization, Simplicity, Sustainability
There is a small garden area off the side of our place. Three of our windows look out to it. It was so covered with weeds that after pulling all the weeds, tilling, and planting, our landlord’s wife asked if we had put up the winding stone barrier to contain the garden. She’s really quite thrilled that we planting there as well as in all the pots she gave us. The dirt along the house isn’t very good. Even after after 1 bag of top soil, 1 bag of compost, some organic clay buster, and adding some manure, it’s just not that great. In hindsight more topsoil and compost should have been added. I guess there is always next year. But before we give up, check out what we did…
My buff handsome hubby tilling.
Here is part of the tilled garden, hens and chicks succulents, and irises.
Aren’t they so lovely?!
Dirt ready for planing seeds (with leftover plastic spoons from our BBQ as labels), seeds and raspberry bushes from Marissa, more seeds from Kate and Sita, and my trowel (Jim is adamant that it’s not a shovel).
What a perfect way to give away seeds!
Aren’t they so lovely? Each type looked so different from the others.
After both the community garden and our home garden planted Jim and I enjoyed the lovely weather. Check out some of the pots:
Everything is looking much more vibrant than when I last took the photos, but I wanted to document the early stages. About a week after planting the seeds some of the radishes started to poke up (see below). The arugula, kale, squash, and peas are looking good too, but the beets, romaine and spinach haven’t appeared. Maybe they won’t. I’m not too worried as I’ve got all of those things growing in the community garden. Sadly, the raspberry bushes didn’t make it. The weather has been too chilly and they just couldn’t take it. I am sad about this as they were transplants from Marissa’s garden and I also love raspberries. Along with the veggies, we bought some and then were also gifted some flower seeds. They have been dispersed throughout our home garden and many are starting to appear! More photos later!
