Today we have been gardening. I picked up lots of plants at the Friends School Plant Sale Mother's Day weekend. Lots of rain has kept them sitting in their pots. No longer! Now we have seven tomato plants, basil, thyme, chocolate mint, sage, rosemarry parsley, potatoes, peas, and tarragon planted in our front lawn.
The apple trees are keeping all those vegetables company out front. We put in two bare-root saplings about a month ago. Until recently they've looked like sticks in the ground--the new leaves sure spruced them up. Hopefully we'll have apples by the time Charlotte is five. Our large walnut tree has restricted what we can plant in the back, so I will have to learn how to keep a tidy, attractive vegetable garden since it is now lining my front walk.
Watermelon, bitter melon, cucumbers, corn and carrots are all waiting to be planted in the back (they don't mind the walnut tree's juglone secretions).
My future plans include pear and cherry trees, black raspberries and saskatoons (juneberries or serviceberries to US residents). Actually I somtimes daydream about a completely edible yard! To further that daydream, I've been reading about a family in Pasadena that did just that--and then some. Their urban homestead, Path to Freedom, takes the idea as far as I can imagine, and then a few miles more. Happy gardening to all those who dig in the dirt!
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