Garden Chronicles :: Chapter 4

Well allot of growing up has been taking place over here at casa de Coburn, or at least we tend to think so. Things have been growing fast. Every day we are having meals from our garden. Sometimes it might just be some greens for a burrito, other times we will have a entire meal.

Everything is coming in just perfect.

I think that one of the funniest things about our edible landscaping, is that we actually do not have that much room work with. I mean our yard is half the size of other yards that we have had in the past, but for some reason it just works out so fine. So fine that after enjoying the first rounds of the fruits of our labor, we decided to set up another garden plot.

The new garden spot we put where our wild flower mix was growing. All of the wild flowers ran their coarse, so when they started to fade out we began making plans for what we would do next. We decided to extend the planter into the yard almost doubling the original size of the planter for another garden. Then we worked the soil. Worked the soil some more, and then added the compost to the soil. We worked the compost about 6-10 inches into the original soil, and then toped it off with 4 inches of straight compost.

We ended up enclosing our entire garden with a 16" chicken wire fence to keep out the predators. We also added a brick around the entire garden for eye candy.

This is a view from our roof deck looking down into the yard at the two garden plots. In another month and a half it will be time to start turning over the first garden plot. At that time the second plot will begin yielding its veggies. We are hoping to work both plots simultaneously giving us a continual supply of vegetables throughout each season.

This is what the view from our front door looks like.

We also cleaned out a plot across our yard that has some nice succulents and palms. This spot gets minimal sunlight however these plants do well in the shade and need only a little water to survive. Leaving most of our watering for the edible plants.

We decided to use the scraps from one of our palms to finish off a hanging basket in our hanging garden. Then we planted basil in it. Yummy.