{"id":72,"date":"2007-08-26T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:19:43","slug":"how-the-garden-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/08\/how-the-garden-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"How the garden grows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The garden…I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the garden.\u00a0 On one hand, when I bought this house last fall and it had the large garden with raised beds, 2 patches of strawberries, some rhubarb, asparagus, fruit trees and other stuff I couldn’t identify – I thought, what fun!\u00a0 I hadn’t really grown stuff I could eat since my Ohio days – a lifetime ago!\u00a0 And my last house had a beautifully established herb garden – perennials – all I had to do was weed, water and enjoy…and I planted annuals around and in pots for color.\u00a0 But here was\u00a0a REAL garden.\u00a0 Turned out that it was\/is a lot more fun in theory – at least for me.<\/p>\n

I spent several weekends in the spring cleaning up the raised beds – the strawberry patches were particulary awful as they should have been cut back in the fall so I had to cut dead runners, pull weeds and try not to kill the new growth in the process.\u00a0 By the time I left for Colorado, the entire garden looked wonderful – I had been able to enjoy the rhubarb and the strawberries were in bloom with little green berries starting, and some Iris planted along a border had bloomed.\u00a0 Iris are a particular favorite of mine, but\u00a0ironically, I am not a huge fan of strawberries – I like\u00a0a few now and then. I spoke to my neighbors about keeping an eye on the house, yard and garden while I was gone – making sure my “irrigation system” did not run amok, etc. and said they were welcome to all of the strawberries – which they were thrilled about.<\/p>\n

On my return, the neighbors had had their fill of strawberries … the irrigation system did fine and everything thrived, including a LOT of weeds…\u00a0 I found out that I wasn’t really into gardening on the scale of the BIG garden.\u00a0 I have decided – I think – to take it out.\u00a0 A little more grass would be easier and I have another smaller spot by the garage that would make a garden area – veg garden – plenty large enough…and in fact I think I’ll just do container stuff – a pot of tomatoes, peppers, etc. – and easy to rig up a drip system and cover them with some sort of mesh to keep the deer out – so that is the plan.<\/p>\n

\"Pots\"\u00a0<\/p>\n

And in the meantime, I have the plants that I brought back from Colorado – Egyptian Walking Onions, Pimiento and a Pepper started by my step-Dad, Bill.\u00a0 The pimiento was eaten to the quick by a deer but Bill says it will recover and I should be able to winter it in the house – ditto the pepper and he says the onions “are not mortal” and I definitely cannot kill them!\u00a0 These onions are wonderful – something on the order of sweet scallions – and you can see below – they make “babies” on the tops – cut the “babies” off and put them back in the dirt – more onions – it is like magic!\u00a0 Well, it’s fun.<\/p>\n

\"Onions\"<\/p>\n

\"Garden\"<\/p>\n

Above right – the photo makes the garden look much better than reality at the moment…I have a bumper crop of thistles, quack grass and other weeds I don’t know what they are called.\u00a0 It is green, though….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The garden…I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the garden.\u00a0 On one hand, when I bought this house last fall and it had the large garden with raised beds, 2 patches of strawberries, some rhubarb, asparagus, fruit trees and other stuff I couldn’t identify – I thought, what fun!\u00a0 I hadn’t really grown stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-yard-and-garden"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22509,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/22509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}