Oh glorious garden!! It is my first ever!! I decided to do a raised bed garden because I have dogs, kids, and a hard, hard ground, and I figured it was the best plan... It was very easy, and turned out more affordable than I thought.. I just googled "How to make a raised bed garden" and set my mind to it! My lovely man helped build it for mothers day, while I cooked pizza for everyone... and I quickly planted all of the baby sprouts I had grown.... Kale, chard, zucchini, tomatoes, broccoli, sweet peppers, lettuce, spinach and pumpkins. Only one chard plant survived :( But everything else is growing well! After about 2 weeks with our 8ft by 4 ft garden, we added another 4 by 4 and planted already bought herbs... parsley, oregano, rosemary and basil.... It is so nice to just run outside and grab some herbs when I am cooking dinner... I always send my 3 yr. old out to get some... and he is a happy helper. As you can see in the 2nd picture, with my little barely walking baby cruising by, the garden is becoming massive!! And I am starting to eat from it.. lettuce everyday for our sandwiches, and tomatoes! Thinking of frying green tomatoes and squash blossoms like my mom made when I was a little girl.... I have been lucky so far... no pests, no bugs, no yellow dying plants..... I am very new at gardening.. and quickly realized I planted my zucchini plants too close together.. they are all crowded, so now I know for next year... and I am tilling the garden every other day to keep the soil nice and loose. And learning as I go....
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there is a saying... "always plant rosemary by the garden gate."
i learned some years ago why. it grows you know into quite a bush over the years, and it smells wonderful... so you plant it where you will brush against it when entering (and leaving) your garden, releasing the divine aroma into the air. i just moved last fall into a new(to me, but old) house. so i've had to leave a few rosemarys behind. my new one is barely a foot tall.
oh lovely! I know this will stick with me my whole life.. very poetic! Do rosemary plants survive the winter and return? I hope so! Mine are very small for now...
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