Every time I come on here, I realize it's been a while since my last post... well I've been busy with house projects! I closed on May 31 and June 1 my tomatoes were planted in the ground and away I go!
So let's start with project #1: my jungle. The previous owners were all into gardening, but they hadn't been here in over 6 months. My goal was to have some sort of veggie garden for the summer and start planting pretty things in the spot right up against the house (there's about an acre of other garden space that needs to be tackled, but that's more long term).
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| May 31: lots of snakes and other things. |
My awesome dad came up for closing and took me on a Home Depot shopping spree. He bought me a sting trimmer which made short work of the jungle. Dad also loves destruction, so he went to town on the jungle as shown in the next picture.
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| June 1: after the carnage |
I had a ton of tomato seedlings I started at my old apartment that I was determined to plant at my new place. In the middle of the jungle, we found these 2 raised beds and I made the middle bed with wood, rocks, and bricks I found around the property. The soil was already beautiful, but I added 2 large bricks of peat moss to fill out the beds.
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| Tomatoes, basil, eggplant, and butternut squash. |
Something I've discovered about myself over the past few years is that I love gardening. Growing up I always got dragged to various nurseries and garden centers and hated it. Now I've learned that I share my mother's love of pretty flowers. After whacking the jungle, I made a goal of clearing a little every day. I cleared this nice little spot and found the granite and rock steps going up to the spigot. So far I've planted foxglove, salvia, assylum, zenias, dahlias, black-eyed Susans, (not pictured) phlox, and red yarrow. I also stole a pretty crimson flowering something or other from my friends' new house.
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| Mid June plantings! |
One of the most challening things for me with the whole house thing is not tackling everything at once. It's a process and everything will happen in time. I've taken off the 2 days after July 4 to finish painting my living room and make window treatments. Projects after that: paint bedroom and tile the shower (yikes!).
