Its the first day of spring officially!! Its been a lovely week as you all well know, we didn't need jackets to go to the park, its been sunny and I'm walking to work again.
We have gardening on the brain! We are fortunate enough to have, in our rented paradise, a large backyard. Which is ours to do what we will with, so last year we used the existing vegetable bed to try our very rookie hand at a vegetable garden and had, very surprisingly, more win than fail. Even with the barrage of heat waves, our little garden managed to produce way more tomatoes, zucchini and cucumbers than we could eat. We knew nothing of yield, and were taught a lesson when we were harvesting somewhere around 100 cherry tomatoes a day. I have very itchy green thumbs right now, with plans to expand the garden out a few more feet, throw in a separate herb garden, add some berry bushes and fill the space formerly zucchini (menace) occupied space with new and exciting....i don't know what yet, but lord knows i will never make the mistake of thinking that one couple needs 4 zucchini plants. Onions and potatoes? Artichokes?
Hopefully we can grow enough produce at home, that we wont have to buy any all summer. Planning the backyard oasis to get me through that last long day of work before our weekend starts...
Cooking tomorrow(yay!), maybe we can prematurely break out the bbq for lunch!
Last spring I planted less zucchini for the first time (because I was tired of that over-abundance sydrome where I pester all my friends to take the extra) and the lone plant died. This year I plan to plant two. Anyhow, here`s to spring! (even though as I write, it is snowing outside)
ReplyDeleteGood idea, wonder if I can give them their own little garden and use the space they take up more efficiently? As soon as that snow melts that is...
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