Gardening – What Did You Not Eat?
When I’m completing a review of a gardening season, I pay special attention to the fruits and vegetables we had excess of and/or didn’t eat.
It makes little sense to devote precious gardening space to fruits and vegetables we don’t want.
This past season, for example, we had a LOT of kale.
Kale is awesome. It is both drought and cold resistant.
And we like kale.
In small quantities.
But we didn’t need to have thirty plants.
So next gardening season, we’ll reduce the amount of kale we plant. We’ll likely swap in swiss chard, which we didn’t have enough of.
What fruit or vegetables did you grow and didn’t eat?
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Garden Layouts Aren’t Set In Stone
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are investing in quite a few new-to-us perennials this season.
Perennials need a semi-permanent place in the garden (they CAN be moved but it sets back their growth and is a pain in the a$$ to do). Which means we have to rearrange our rather small backyard.
We’re moving the leaf mold cages to the side of the house that gets very little sun and nothing much grows there. This won’t hurt the leaf mold production and it will free up those sunnier spaces for growing vegetables.
(smiles)
Garden layouts aren’t set in stone, my friends.
Well, unless you literally set them in stone. And even those can be changed if you’re very strong and/or have a sledge hammer.
(grins)
Change them when your requirements change.
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