The Garden
We have a vegetable garden. When I say, “we”, I mostly mean my role in said vegetable garden is that it sits on the property that I own via the nice mortgage company somewhere in California. It’s one of those suburban gardens - you know the 15 foot x 15 foot types that has to avoid being seen from the street so one of those homeowners association company employees does not cite us for being “un-homeowners associationy”. We (there’s that “we” again) grow some tomatoes, peppers, okra, beans, and a few other things in the garden and get the rest of our vegetables from the nice people at the Avalon Acres co-op.
Now, the great thing about our garden is that it’s a yearly gift from my favorite in-laws. Amy’s parents come in every spring and spend several days here but one of those days is devoted to weeding, tilling, and planting our garden. (They do the same for Shaun’s family even though they have secretly confided in me that I am the favorite son-in-law)
So, today is garden day around here and in several weeks the vegetables will start sprouting from the ground and by midsummer we can hardly keep up with the baby tomatoes that will take over.
Does anyone else here plant a little suburban, urban, or rural garden? If so, what are you planting this summer?
We too have a suburban garden. It’s in our large, fenced in back yard though and no home owners association employees to bug us about it. We do however have a large dog that jumps whatever fence we put up to chase the rabbits that we also have in our back yard. They currently reside under our shed which drives the above mentioned dog nuts most days. Now, when I say “we” I actually mean, my husband and two younger children. I do not venture out to the garden because I have been known to kill cactus and silk flowers. It’s a good thing my children are hearty! If we manage to keep the dog and the rabbits out of the garden, we grow a nice variety of veggies. This year “we” are putting in corn, tomatoes (two kinds), peppers, green beans, zucchini, broccoli, and pumpkins (for carving of course).
Beth
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I used to have a semi-rural garden. It was right next to a lake in the middle of farm country, and the first time my husband tilled it, I thought he had put down black dirt from Home Depot to make himself look good.
Nope. It was just that rich. I had never gardened before, but everything I ever planted in that soil grew like crazy.
That’s when I started to understand the zucchini jokes.
Rural, neglected, mandatory garden. Tomatoes - lots of tomatoes, peppers, volunteers from last year’s garden(currently 5 potato plants and a couple of cucumbers), spinach, melons and flowers - still need to plant squash and beans.
Correction; substitute cucumbers for zucchini.
Beth