View From Your Garden - Finch Arboretum
Even better than the pictures are the emails;
Sorry if this email is a little long
winded; I'm a girl in love with her garden...My landlord decided to put
new siding the house last summer. During
the project he left the siding next to the retaining wall and killed
off a patch of lawn. I saw the dead lawn and thought it would be the
perfect place to expand the garden. I think my landlord had plans on
planting the lawn back to grass. Too bad...it's green beans, a ton of
zucchini and cucumbers now!
I'm currently growing heirloom tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans, zucchini, potatoes, basil, squash and pumpkins. I'm really hoping someone can tell me why I insisted on planting so many tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes in my garden? I'm a one person household, why would I need 7 tomato plants? I'm bracing myself for harvest and gathering up recipes as fast as I can. I guess if it comes down to it, I'll just leave a handful of zucchini on the doorsteps of my neighbors in the middle of the night. :)
By far the pride and joy of my garden has to be the pumpkins. During a pumpkin carving get together with my friends last October, I came up with the idea to have a pumpkin growing contest. There is money on the line for the biggest pumpkin and we have a group of about 10 families with plants in the ground. There has even been some pretty nasty trash talking so far! I can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of the harvest than with a get together with friends and family to determine who is the 2009 Fat Pumpkin Contest winner.
I'm currently growing heirloom tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans, zucchini, potatoes, basil, squash and pumpkins. I'm really hoping someone can tell me why I insisted on planting so many tomatoes, zucchini and potatoes in my garden? I'm a one person household, why would I need 7 tomato plants? I'm bracing myself for harvest and gathering up recipes as fast as I can. I guess if it comes down to it, I'll just leave a handful of zucchini on the doorsteps of my neighbors in the middle of the night. :)
By far the pride and joy of my garden has to be the pumpkins. During a pumpkin carving get together with my friends last October, I came up with the idea to have a pumpkin growing contest. There is money on the line for the biggest pumpkin and we have a group of about 10 families with plants in the ground. There has even been some pretty nasty trash talking so far! I can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of the harvest than with a get together with friends and family to determine who is the 2009 Fat Pumpkin Contest winner.
I love it. Trash talking, subverting the landlord and zucchini hooliganism. Foodie Revolutionaries unite! Let me see the view from your garden.
