by Carl Strang
Yesterday I shared my woodland gardens. Today I want to show the back yard. We’re not talking big. For instance, here is my wetland.
My prairie is in two parts, both of the postage stamp scale. One part along the back fence will peak in blooming later. For now, some non-native day lilies are providing color.
The other prairie plot has flowers through more of the season.
At the moment, the main eye-catchers are butterfly milkweed, white wild indigo, and spiderwort. Others will come along later.
On the same scale I also tuck in a vegetable garden.
As I mentioned yesterday, gardening involves inquiry. Though the back yard is the sunniest area I have, the sun doesn’t really reach it until late morning, limiting what I can do there. I have had poor results with carrots and with garlic, for example, and no longer grow them. Beans have given such inconsistent results that I have abandoned them, too. This year I am focusing more on greens, adding Tuscan kale and Swiss chard to the old standby, lettuce.
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October 9, 2009 at 6:17 am
[...] in the vegetable garden, I got very poor results with Swiss chard, but the Tuscan kale grew well and I will expand its [...]