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My garden. It is a little, well, wild. There’s crabgrass between the rows, which I am slowly but surely rooting out. This makes it resemble a teenage boy in need of a haircut putting up a determined fight at the suggestion that a trim might be needed. My garden does not look like those pristine pictures you see in garden magazine layouts.
But I love it. And despite the crabgrass and the marauding deer, it’s producing tasty greens and radishes and strawberries, and the flowers say that soon we’ll have squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, cantaloupe, honeydew, tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, corn, eggplant. The sunflowers might recover from being eaten by hooved hoodlums, too.
I love it despite the imperfections because it has reminded me of something important; that a garden doesn’t have to look like something out of a magazine to be effective.
I think it’s awesome! 🙂
Thanks!
Go Charli!!! Looks GREAT to me…do I spy a row of marigolds? If so you’ve got all the bases covered, esp. with one sly scarecrow watching (wish I could see a pic of him!) Our garden suits me to a “T”..though I don’t expect a medal…just some fun in the sun and healthy eating!!
Yep, the marigolds ring the tomato cages. Prevents bugs. The scarecrow sprinkler is between the blueberry bushes, it pops up and sprays when it detects motion. Just went off, haha deer!
Fun in the sun and healthy eating is all the reason you need. Although I’m finding it a surprisingly good workout, too!
I think it’s a very nice garden. And it’s only your first year there, you should give it a couple of years and it will look like it could be on the cover of a magazine. Any thought to putting in an asparagus bed? (they take a couple of years to establish themselves before you can harvest them).
I’ve thought about an asparagus bed, but it was too much to add to this year when we had to start by picking a site and removing lawn to put in a garden. Thanks, it will look prettier as time goes on and the blueberry hedge fills out and the grape vine grows. Also, this first year we’re battling grass that wants to come back, so the shaggy issue will ease up eventually.