Every year like so many other gardeners I make a garden plan. I spend hours perfecting it, checking for rotations schedules, timing, heights, companion planting, soil make up and so many other things. And then I change it all around about 5 more times. Typical right?…
Today is the first day of fall, and while I usually take this time to think about my goals for the year and evaluate how I’m doing on them, my mind seems to keep winding back to my garden.
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Around here we are always trying to reduce waste, and one of the easiest ways we have found to do that is by composting. I love that composting makes waste useful again by providing my gardens with valuable nutrients. A few more added bonuses are that we are sending less of this volume into the landfills, using fewer garbage bags, and have less smelly garbage.
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I’ve been seeing living walls pop up all over the place and I was pretty intrigued from the first moment I saw them. They just look so cool and I totally wanted one, but all the premade versions seemed a little expensive for my tastes. I racked my brains trying to think of an inexpensive way to design a homemade/DIY version of it, but I was really failing in that department. Maybe it’s the engineer in me, but I really wanted something perfect….
Adding flowers to your vegetable garden may seem counter-intuitive to you. You’re probably over there thinking something like I have a flower garden, why would I plant flowers in the vegetable garden? They will take up space where I could be growing tomatoes! But what if I told you that those flowers would help your tomatoes taste better, repel pests, and help your plants grow larger? Now I’ve got your attention, right?
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