As much as I love handcrafting wearable art, I have to admit, I love eating fresh healthy homegrown food even more! I grew up helping my mother tend a vegetable garden every summer to save money, so I learned the basics and absorbed an appreciation for all growing living greenery.
The first bright green buds are popping out on the branches here in central Virginia, so I know that Spring will be here and with the great thaw comes gardening! starting completely from scratch in my new yard! organically! (of course :) All we have at the moment is dead grass in a barren yard and our growing compost pile--not exactly phototastic. My plan is to start a modest (big) vegetable garden, incorporate herbs and low-maintenance native plants into naturalizing the yard into a landscape thereby eliminating the useless expanse of grass to cut and bringing life to boring window views. We did all this with our yard in Florida over the course of 5 years, so now we get to do it all over again here! Yay! I have already acquired royal paulownia, bamboo and japanese maple seeds for ornamentals and natural privacy screening elements.
Ah well, nothing like emerging from a nice long winter cave dream and starting over with a fresh canvas of Earth--it's not really home until I have the dirt embedded in my fingernails! I can taste the REAL tomatoes, green peppers, yellow squash, green beans, cilantro, basil...there already sprouting in my brain! alongside jeweled creations, a new organic cotton lingerie line and more...be well
The first bright green buds are popping out on the branches here in central Virginia, so I know that Spring will be here and with the great thaw comes gardening! starting completely from scratch in my new yard! organically! (of course :) All we have at the moment is dead grass in a barren yard and our growing compost pile--not exactly phototastic. My plan is to start a modest (big) vegetable garden, incorporate herbs and low-maintenance native plants into naturalizing the yard into a landscape thereby eliminating the useless expanse of grass to cut and bringing life to boring window views. We did all this with our yard in Florida over the course of 5 years, so now we get to do it all over again here! Yay! I have already acquired royal paulownia, bamboo and japanese maple seeds for ornamentals and natural privacy screening elements.
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| http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/pato0.htm |
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| http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2008/06/how-green-is-ba.html |
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| http://www.daylilyparadise.com/japanesemaple.html |
Oh, how I miss the ginormous Buddha belly and golden stripe bamboo forest in my backyard in Daytona grown from twigs within 4 years!
Ah well, nothing like emerging from a nice long winter cave dream and starting over with a fresh canvas of Earth--it's not really home until I have the dirt embedded in my fingernails! I can taste the REAL tomatoes, green peppers, yellow squash, green beans, cilantro, basil...there already sprouting in my brain! alongside jeweled creations, a new organic cotton lingerie line and more...be well
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