Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

What to Grow, What to Grow. . .

The Farmer's City Wife has gotten me thinking about what to plant in my garden this year.  Now I'm not feeling as ambitious as she is (47 vegetables and 12 herbs!!!), but I would like to grow something this year now that I've learned the limitations of our yard.  Our nice little city lot is only sunny in the front of the house and the whole backyard is so shady that the only thing that really grows well back there is moss.

So in the front yard, in planters we're going to have broccoli and lettuce, also possibly cauliflower because I find the grocery store prices appalling.  In the backyard we're going to be putting trellises up in a couple of places to cover gaps in between the fences.  They'll be in partially sunny spots so we're going to get peas and pole beans to grow up them.  I'd rather have morning glories but there's no way they're going to grow back there.



Next summer, once we've finished working on the house, we're going to be working on landscaping the yard.  Once that happens I'll have plenty of space in the front yard to plant more vegetables.  We'll be building a retaining wall along the sidewalk and filling the space behind it with soil; I'm hoping to have flowers along the front edge and lots of different greens and herbs on the house side of the garden, possibly a cute white picket fence in between the two rows.  Something like the above but with gardens instead of grass.  I'm hoping that the dozens of hostas that previous owners planted and the lilies from my MIL have survived and will continue to fill in all around the foundations of the house.  We may also try to culture some more moss in the backyard since we've long since given up on grass.

And then there's all of the landscaping to be done in the backyard as well, which is a whole other post.