A New Year & A New Garden

Sometimes an idea just won’t leave you alone until you give up and start working on it.
That is true for both my little garden that inspired this mini-website and the design behind it.

May 15th 2011

The new year is well on its way and I had many good intentions to re-design this section of my site, and give it a new look, but then life happened and I figured if I was going to wait to re-design it, then I would never get any posts made! So it remains the way it is.

The major change for this year is that I’ve decided to make my small garden plot into a flower and herb garden instead of a veggie garden. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the veggies last year, but given the small amount of space I have to work with, I decided to give some flowers a try - plus I love picking flowers for inside the house.

So the Plan is as Follows:

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Wild Strawberries

Tomato Plants

Lemon Balm

Basil

Mint

Oregano

Sunflowers

Zinnia

Poppies

Bachelor’s Button

War has Been Waged

I spent the last week digging over most of the garden patch in an attempt to be finally rid of the dreaded Crab grass. To achieve success, I enlisted the help of the Chief Excavation Expert, who joyfully dug random holes wherever she liked before any plants were in.

I also might add that in watching the CEE dig, I came to the conclusion that she can dig a hole twice as deep and in half the time I can with a fork - with nothing but a pair of paws, a long nose, accompanied by (when she’s in the zone) a lot of growling, snorting and snuffling as if she’s digging her way to China.

So, the war, I believe has been won...somewhat, and the main plants have now been planted, along with some stragglers from the rest of the garden and some Snap Dragons and other random flowers.

The lavender last year, looks like it’s going to pull through, and the Wild Strawberries, are indeed wild and threatened to take over the whole patch before anything was done, so they have now been hemmed in.

 

Then Disaster Struck

So after a week of frantic digging, planting and watering. The heavens opened. For 2 whole days. This morning I was greeted with this view:

So the first thing that comes to mind is ‘F My Life’. I managed to salvage the seeds that were yet to be planted, and so hopefully a period of drying out in the garage will help them. But the rest of the garden is standing under 3 inches of water, all the flowers I finished planting just the other day are completely waterlogged - who knows whether they will survive, as I’m not sure how long it will take the ground to drain.

*sigh*