All coming together now...

The rose bush ate it, the raspberry bushes have been tamed, and the rosemary, chamomile and basil are in the ground.

Up next: two kinds of bok choi and one kind of sweet pepper. (The red kind.)

Sadly, we're having to take a year off from growing tomatoes. You're supposed to do that from time to time. It will drastically reduce the yield from our garden this year, but it has to be done.

Still...it's a lettuce fest out there and we've got more and more edible perennials, which was my starting goal. Every year we have less to do and more to eat!

Live blogging my garden

The garden is being wrestled into submission, mostly by Hopper, but I helped some before I had to come in to rest. (Stupid stomach bug.) When he is done hacking down everything that needs to be hacked down, I will go out and decide where the new veggies will get to grow.

We already have some string beans growing that I planted with the edible mulch. I am, by the way, enjoying the edible mulch. It seems to be effective at keeping weeds at bay, and whenever we want salad I just go out and give the garden a haircut and we have a delightful, fresh bowl of baby greens.

I think a rose bush is going to bite it today. The previous owner of our house planted a lot of roses and they're lovely but they get in my way and tend to be pokey, so I think one (or maybe two) will have to go.

To be continued...

Drama in the yard

My garden is out of control. I don't know how this happened. We missed one weekend due to a death in the family, and now it's like a jungle. And it's been rainy so we can't even do anything about it. And I've got a mysterious stomach ailment that is making it hard to eat which is leaving me with no energy so it's down to Hopper and Boo to get the garden under control in the brief sunny periods allotted to us by the Universe.

Ranty much?

To be continued...

A long day of hoeing

Chalk up another active day with Boo and Wonderdog for me! We prepared the garden today (mostly) and we're trying living mulch this year. Basically, we're planting a carpet of lettuce, arugula, mesclun and basil all over the garden.

Preparing the garden is always a lot of work, but it was fun today. Boo was building fairy houses, Hopper was destroying the roots of weeds, and I was planting the living mulch. Meanwhile, Wonderdog was enjoying just being outside with the family. He didn't even get a walk today and yet he's sacked out on the couch, totally exhausted from all the fun he had.

I'm really excited to see what grows from all the seeds I planted today, if anything. It's a risk--the planting date around here is May 15th--but it's a small risk. We spent about $9 on seeds today.

Tomorrow when I finish the job I'll take some "before" pictures so that you can enjoy my garden along with us!