Vegetable Gardening

[spokewench]

I finally got into my backyard yesterday, 5 hours later, my garden beds are all cleaned out and I raked a bunch of pine needles and bagged them to be picked up by bulk pickup. My aching back!

Now, manure, compost and I'll be ready to plant soon.

Last week, my front beds all cleaned out, planted some pansies for color; and got lucky at the nursery. They had overwintered gallon plants (perennials) mostly all around $20 plants, for $5. Of course, most of them had not sprouted yet, but that's okay. I planted a bunch of bleeding hearts and a thing called rodgerisia in my shade garden; a campanula bellflower and some type of ground cover in a sunny spot; and a couple of nice alaskan burdette (that's not right) supposed to be cold hardy. ANyway, i'll look up hte name again for you, but it has beautiful foliage. What a find!

[smilingcat]

Kit,

Love your vertical garden. You should submit your idea to Mother Earth, Organic Gardening magazine as a short article.

It's fantastic!!

[Kitsune06]

Well, X gives me too much credit. I'd seen the idea of using a shoe rack somewhere, the biggest thing was just figuring out the execution. It's lurking on instructables.com somewhere.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

This morning I saw teeny baby sprouts poking up from the soil of some of the seeds I planted last week- Swiss chard, kohlrabi, lettuces, and radishes. It's always so exciting to see the newborn babies push up through the earth!