I've lived in my house for 10 years now, which is long enough to have trees and gardens that have finally matured and taken on a life of their own. The stone walls I have built with my own hands now marry into the soil and root systems. My "little" pink dogwood is now a 10 foot beauty and my modest Japanese Red Maple is beauty with an 8 foot wingspan. My bell-shaped flower garden requires little of me except to beat back the more aggressive growers and not allow them to bully the more delicate specimen.
Last year my husband and I put up a fence and put in 2 4x10 raised beds for veggies. Today we put the garden in and it is lush with multiple kinds of lettuce, salad greens, 2 kinds of kale, collards and chard. There are carrots, pole beans and cukes. My herbs live in huge terra cotta pots on the deck. This year I had to put my tomatoes in pots on the deck as well as I was hard-struck by the tomato blight last year. The Cornell Extension said I should not plant potatoes or tomatoes in that soil for 4 years so I am embarking on the new endeavor of tomatoes in containers. Growing your own food gives one a feeling of wholeness and a sense of being "at one with" like nothing else I know!
Beautiful Neely! Very impressive. I garden also & I can appreciate the work & patience getting to this wonderful point with your garden. I am planning on blogging about my front garden as soon as I get time. I am very excited to share pics of my Lupines that finally bloomed 3 yrs after planting them. They were worth the wait :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Debi! I do love my gardens. When I was in Maine last summer I was doing some work for a friend who has a store up there and Lupines are a wildflower there. They are EVERYWHERE. I became hyper aware of them and am glad you are finally able to enjoy yours! Cheers, Neely
ReplyDeleteBeautiful garden Neely!
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