Gardening 2018: Garden Dreams
The first year in a new home means surprises in the garden! From the looks of things we will have daffodils and some tulips come up this spring. I also noticed in an outside walk around yesterday that there is wild garlic all over the place! Called "Crow Garlic" I am looking forward to cooking up something (soon) with some foraged stuff.
Maggie, our ancient beloved dog, seems to have killed the bushes in the front from laying under them and digging around. Seems to me like replacing them is inevitable. Also, there is english Ivy everywhere! We are not huge users of round up but I think we might just do a spraying of a bunch of the Ivy just to get it a bit under control. Some of the trees are losing their battle to it's climbing. There are some other invasive bushes in our little gully as well so I am hoping to clear out some of that and give some of the under-story plants a chance (at least poison ivy is native!)
Our vegetable garden is planned for the front of our yard. It gets great light and is otherwise fairly useless space. Over the winter I have left boxes and leaves on top of the boxes to (hopefully) kill off the grass. Once we till it up in the spring we can get going on things. I am hoping, also, to plant stawberries along the other side of the driveway and herbs in the font where there was already a flowerbed but has probably been heavily (naturally) seeded in grass.
Along our patios in the back there are space for some other things. Horseradish (which I think my uncle John saved for me) and perhaps some other things I don't know much about. We are ales planning to build a raised bed in the back. The plan is to use it as a compost pile for a couple of years with grass, leaves, food scraps etc and then in 3 years or so start planting it. I think that at this point we will have more than enough work on our hands- and I am so much looking forward to getting these hands dirty!
Maggie, our ancient beloved dog, seems to have killed the bushes in the front from laying under them and digging around. Seems to me like replacing them is inevitable. Also, there is english Ivy everywhere! We are not huge users of round up but I think we might just do a spraying of a bunch of the Ivy just to get it a bit under control. Some of the trees are losing their battle to it's climbing. There are some other invasive bushes in our little gully as well so I am hoping to clear out some of that and give some of the under-story plants a chance (at least poison ivy is native!)
Our vegetable garden is planned for the front of our yard. It gets great light and is otherwise fairly useless space. Over the winter I have left boxes and leaves on top of the boxes to (hopefully) kill off the grass. Once we till it up in the spring we can get going on things. I am hoping, also, to plant stawberries along the other side of the driveway and herbs in the font where there was already a flowerbed but has probably been heavily (naturally) seeded in grass.
Along our patios in the back there are space for some other things. Horseradish (which I think my uncle John saved for me) and perhaps some other things I don't know much about. We are ales planning to build a raised bed in the back. The plan is to use it as a compost pile for a couple of years with grass, leaves, food scraps etc and then in 3 years or so start planting it. I think that at this point we will have more than enough work on our hands- and I am so much looking forward to getting these hands dirty!
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