When we first bought our house we were perhaps underwhelmed by the home itself, and instead we were enthralled with the two two-car garages (one for me, one for him), and the YARD. We’re definitely city dwellers now, but our house sits on a .19 acre lot, and considering the house is only 1,000 square feet, most of it is YARD.
There is a large green lawn and even an alcove for chickens, and a three-foot-wide border that runs across most of the fence line. Hello, veggie garden!!
The only problem is, it needs A LOT of TLC. The plants currently residing in the border bed are overgrown and not useful, so most of them will need to be evicted.
With exception of: the plum tree and the apple tree that are both in sincere need of pruning (and that’s an understatement; clearly they have never met a pair of clippers in their lives), and the grand Rosemary bush, that at one time lived in a terra cotta pot, but burst forth from its confines and rooted in the soil below.
The lemon balm bushes I will re-home into pots to better contain their spread. And, if I can convince my husband to allow me to train them, the black berry bushes will be trellised along the fence line. Other than that. ALL MUST GO.
Our plan is to remove the tiny (ancient and leaning) wooden fence that marks the boundary between bed and lawn, and replace it with a low cement block wall, essentially turning the whole thing into a raised bed.
It will be so much work, and it’s already January… Planting for winter crops begins in March, summer begins Mid-May… Wish us luck…
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