Yesterday I cleaned up the front garden. It took me all of 42 seconds. What a strange feeling that was.
What do people do in the spring when they don’t have a giant garden to tend to?
I didn’t need a wheelbarrow, or even a bucket. I held all the dried leaves and spent flowers in one hand, walked to the backyard and tossed them over the fence.
That was it. I haven’t decided if I missed the whole annual clean up task or if I’m actually relieved that I didn’t have to do it.
The HH and I are in garden bed negotiations. Have I mentioned this already? Basically I think we need flower beds on both sides of the long side garden.
He doesn’t think we need any. {Which is ridiculous}.
He also doesn’t think we need to plant anything along the back fence. So basically what this means is he just wants us to have a fence and some grass in the backyard.
How absurd is that?
Yesterday I spent about an hour or so moving the little landscaping flags around trying out different solutions. I still don’t have it figured out yet. All I know is that I want to do some vertical gardening and plant a bunch of stuff in pots.
We were originally thinking we would rip out the wooden platform in front of the garage door and replace it with a large stone {that would sit right in front of the door}.
But now we’re thinking we might just replace the top boards with cedar {the base is in good shape} and stain it to match the deck. What do you think?
Stone or wooden platform?
If we kept the platform I could put some terra cotta pots on the left side and grow some veggies {or flowers} in that spot.
Oh Lucy! She loves laying in the sun!
The peas I started from seed two weeks ago are ready to be hardened off. Yesterday was their first day outside.
Maybe by the weekend I’ll be able to put my garden cart out and offer the extras for sale.
I also dug out the seed starting trays and potting soil again so I could get the tomato seeds planted.
6 varieties of tomatoes should be enough, don’t you think?
I have absolutely NO IDEA where I’m going to put them, or even how many of each will end up in pots or tied up to a trellis, but who needs to worry about that right now.
I figure I’ll use what I can, give some to Kiln Guy and the rest of the tomato plants can go out on the cart and someone else in the neighborhood can grow them.
Have you planted {or bought} your tomatoes yet? How many varieties are you growing this year?
Anyone growing any unusual ones? Curious minds want to know. 🙂
Have a great day everyone.
~Mavis
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