Garden In The Rough
(My garden in the rough began after we purchased our new home about a
year and a half ago...scroll down further to read about how we started.)
5/2011
While I continue to prepare my garden, I took a few pics from around
town. I came across this community garden in the middle of Oakland,
near the University of Pittsburgh.
11/2010
Soooo...my OCD kicked in and I went back out to the garden and plucked a few more choice potatoes from plastic flower pots that I am growing them in. I loved how the soil felt between my fingers as I gently, yet impatiently, pawed aside enough dirt to uncover a few more lates, or new potatoes. I had picked up some extra green beans from the farmers market to add with the ones from my garden and had the kids snap 'em. I threw in a few strips of bacon, butter, salt, pepper, garlic. Actually, green beans and potatoes can be a meal by itself or a side. I smell them cooking as I blog.
Greenbeans and cherry tomatoes from my garden!
my feast! Greenbeans and potatoes
Late cucumbers...10/2010
Start of the square foot garden layout for 2nd crop of greenbeans
which will be my first crop. Planted last week of July and should
be ready to harvest in 60 days; sooo...2nd week in September just
before the 1st frost? I'm hoping...
Put the seeds under 2 inches of soil.
Surrounded bed with the planters of blueberries, potatoes,
cherry tomatoes and a couple of cucumber plants all growing
in planters.
The battle is on...the weeds have thrown down the gauntlet...what to do...
Missing from this pic is the wild thing...apparently the Smokester doesn't like tall grass
and weeds. Sooo...I had to cut her a path before she would go out and play.
Where the wild things are...it rained a few days and the grass got
out of hand...better cut it before we get a citation! Maybe I'll have my
backyard declared a habitat that attracts rare birds and butterflies...
Snowpocalypse 2010
Whose woods are these? I think I know...
SNOW PLOW MAAAAN...Schools close, roads disappear, grown men weep...
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it
and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
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Hark! What light through yon window breaketh?
Yes, t'is the sun and it is warming the house. This house hath plenty of potential for energy savings.
Those solar energy and engineering classes will come in handy in our new place.
So this is how I envisioned our new home. We would sit out on the back porch which overlooks a creek or a lake,okay-okay a pond. We would have a huge garden, where bees would frolic and butterflies would play. We would even have a deer crossed back lawn.
(Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts)
portal
Updates above
We would have a
vineyard and a small fruit
orchard...wine year round (sigh...) The following is a wish-list of fruits trees that I would like in my urban orchard:
1. Apple
2. peach
3. mulberry
4. pear
5. cherry
Other fruit...
grapes both red and thompson
blueberries
raspberries
My home would be an energy efficient, zero energy building.
Upon waking from my daydream...However, I'm back living in the city, da Burgh in a cul-de-sac and THIS (below)... is my new canvas! Composter in the corner and some carrots from our old townhouse. Our house sits on a hill. It will cost $300 to get a surveyor out here to set property limits.
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This is what we envisioned when we heard that we had a water
feature on our property. This is what we got...
year and a half ago...scroll down further to read about how we started.)
5/2011
While I continue to prepare my garden, I took a few pics from around
town. I came across this community garden in the middle of Oakland,
near the University of Pittsburgh.
11/2010
Soooo...my OCD kicked in and I went back out to the garden and plucked a few more choice potatoes from plastic flower pots that I am growing them in. I loved how the soil felt between my fingers as I gently, yet impatiently, pawed aside enough dirt to uncover a few more lates, or new potatoes. I had picked up some extra green beans from the farmers market to add with the ones from my garden and had the kids snap 'em. I threw in a few strips of bacon, butter, salt, pepper, garlic. Actually, green beans and potatoes can be a meal by itself or a side. I smell them cooking as I blog.
Greenbeans and cherry tomatoes from my garden!
my feast! Greenbeans and potatoes
Late cucumbers...10/2010
Start of the square foot garden layout for 2nd crop of greenbeans
which will be my first crop. Planted last week of July and should
be ready to harvest in 60 days; sooo...2nd week in September just
before the 1st frost? I'm hoping...
Put the seeds under 2 inches of soil.
Surrounded bed with the planters of blueberries, potatoes,
cherry tomatoes and a couple of cucumber plants all growing
in planters.
The battle is on...the weeds have thrown down the gauntlet...what to do...
Missing from this pic is the wild thing...apparently the Smokester doesn't like tall grass
and weeds. Sooo...I had to cut her a path before she would go out and play.
Where the wild things are...it rained a few days and the grass got
out of hand...better cut it before we get a citation! Maybe I'll have my
backyard declared a habitat that attracts rare birds and butterflies...
Snowpocalypse 2010
Whose woods are these? I think I know...
SNOW PLOW MAAAAN...Schools close, roads disappear, grown men weep...
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it
and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~Patrick Young
-----------------------
Hark! What light through yon window breaketh?
Yes, t'is the sun and it is warming the house. This house hath plenty of potential for energy savings.
Those solar energy and engineering classes will come in handy in our new place.
So this is how I envisioned our new home. We would sit out on the back porch which overlooks a (Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts)
portal
Updates above
We would have a
vineyard and a small fruit orchard...wine year round (sigh...) The following is a wish-list of fruits trees that I would like in my urban orchard:
1. Apple
2. peach
3. mulberry
4. pear
5. cherry
Other fruit...
grapes both red and thompson
blueberries
raspberries
My home would be an energy efficient, zero energy building.
Upon waking from my daydream...However, I'm back living in the city, da Burgh in a cul-de-sac and THIS (below)... is my new canvas! Composter in the corner and some carrots from our old townhouse. Our house sits on a hill. It will cost $300 to get a surveyor out here to set property limits.
This is what we envisioned when we heard that we had a water
feature on our property. This is what we got...
Posted by stephscip at 11/29/2009 11:20 PM 
Categories: square foot gardening 2010, garden dreams, Thoreau's greenbeans, new garden
Categories: square foot gardening 2010, garden dreams, Thoreau's greenbeans, new garden
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