Remember my garden from last year? And the ambitious plans I had for it? Some of those are coming to fruition this year. I was going to take pictures but then the sun went away, so I’ll take some pictures later and post them. If you look at the links from last year though hopefully you’ll get the gist of what I’m talking about.
The azalea in the corner by the house has been pulled out. It just didn’t do at all well in that corner surrounded on all sides by cement. We decided that rather than pull the cement blocks on the side out, we should leave them there, as that edge has cement on both sides and little would grow there anyway. Instead, we moved the barbecue there and the plan is to take out half our patio on the other side, which is the sunniest part of the garden so would open up a lot of space for other things. Along the fence up to the shed is pretty shady until late afternoon, and then gets sun for most of the evening. I’m not sure what’s going there yet. I was thinking lining the walkway with lavender or something else that smells nice. (Kris isn’t a huge fan of the scent of lavender, what else would make a good walkway liner that has a nice smell?)
I want to have a lot of veggies this year, and was hoping to keep them away from the house, but since my only really sunny plots are against the house that’s where a lot of them will end up. However, I’ve made the plot there huge and so will have butterfly and hummingbird flowers and plants up against the house, and then veggies closer to the lawn. As per my sister’s suggestion last year, I will also be putting some sunflowers along the house.
Kris and I also dug a bed along the side fence and I’m thinking I’d like to put corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, and maybe lettuce along there. It gets a lot of sun, which the corn likes, and the lettuce can get shade from the taller veggies. Then there’s a little bed in the back fence that only gets morning sun that will be good for anything that likes cooler soil. The back corner by the gate is the shadiest part of the yard. It’s in the south-east part of the yard so it really doesn’t get sun at all any time of the day. Rather than fighting it and trying to grow something there anyway, I’ve decided to make that corner my compost pile. All the sod I’ve dug up will go in there under a tarp, and we’ll get a real compost bin to use for food, etc as well. I’m hoping having a compost will really reduce our garbage output too. I try not to throw out all food trimmings, as a lot of it is good for stock and the local SPCA will take some of it too for their animals, but nevertheless it’s still a lot of waste.
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