Again, I dropped the ball on maintaining my blog…even with garden-related stuff. I tried to do a serious push to get all open client projects done so that I can take a little time off to recharge, get my site up, do some personal work. Here it is, early November, and I think I am close to wrapping up any open client projects.
Gardening season is pretty much over. However, I have lots of carrot and flower seedlings popping out of the soil. I have decided to incorporate veggies into my front garden, but in a very discreet way. I would prefer to not have the front look like a veggie garden if at all possible. Fortunately I can still use my smallest veggie beds and will most likely use that for tomatoes. Tomatoes aren’t the prettiest of plants and need cages or staking, so they will definitely not blend into my roses, peonies, hellebores, etc.
Since I will be incorporating veggies rather than creating a separate bed in the front yard, I will focus my attention on either creating some sort of easy-on-the-eyes barrier between the neighbor’s house and ours or figuring out what to do with the spots the veggie beds are currently in. I tried to do a quick sketch of an idea I had to show Ralph and he didn’t seem thrilled about it. Didn’t hate it but wasn’t as excited about it as I was. I’m hoping a Photoshopped visual will better convey my idea which essentially boils down to expanding the back patio just a teeny bit. However, I will take the winter to sketch out at least 3-5 ideas on what to do with the recovered space. I even suggested to Ralph that we could have the pond curving through those soon-to-be ex-veggie bed spots, but he just kind of “meh” me. Maybe he was just in a very non-commital mood.
Post sounds unfocused and choppy? That’s because I need to get to bed. I’ll write again before the week ends, I promise.