Slacker!
That’s me in documenting our family garden this year. If you haven’t read my posts about gardening before, you should know that we consider our family accidental gardeners. We try things we think will work without really knowing what we’re doing. We also use our front yard for the garden because it gets the best sun. Our neighbors might think we’re hippies, but there are worse things.
So, here is the sum up of the season…
We added two more square foot gardens to the front yard and now have a total of four, housing leeks, watermelons (little sugar babies), peppers, tomatoes, chives, sage, fennel and lavender. This is the second lavender plant I’ve tried to grow in the perennial herb garden and the slugs get to it every spring. One square foot garden has the strawberry patch that we relocated last fall, which has been pretty unproductive. Hoping they come back with a vengeance next year after I put down more compost and fertilizer and add the additional plants from the other site.
In the “whatever goes” section, we planted cucumbers and pumpkins. Already established plants, like our golden raspberry bush, did great this year. Red and black raspberries have yet to fruit. Not sure if they ever will. And we have rampaging mint which we are trying to contain in two circular sections. They are like Al Pacino in Godfather 3 – they try to get out and we keep pulling them back in.
I’d say the season was an overall success. We’re still harvesting some tomatoes and I need to make the last pesto with the remaining basil and chives. Oh, and freeze the sage in olive oil for Thanksgiving. Oh, and start thinking about next year (:
