a little garden inspiration.
And since I come from a long line of fabulous gardeners (hello dad and grandma and elle!), I figure that gardening desire must be ingrained in my DNA. But our much needed inside house work has trumped our outside yard work, and so a garden was never planted this year.
One of our favorite books is called The Curious Garden by Peter Brown. I love how little Liam spends his winter learning about how to grow his curious little garden, instead of sitting idly by during the gardens down time. So like Liam, I am going to get started on some of the prep work, so our garden can look like the gardens at Mount Vernon. Ha! Only about 1/1000th of the size...
1. Decide what to grow. I want fruit trees and vegetables and herbs. And I want it all to be pretty. :) The main problem I see is: our yard is not very big. So I may have to get a little creative on how to make this happen.
2. Decide how to grow it all (pots, espaliers, beds, etc.) Then decide on location(s) and sketch out plans.
3. Build any espalier or raised beds during the fall so they're all ready for next spring.
4. Learn how to make my soil fabulous, and also learn more about composting. First and foremost: Is it stinky? If so, how bad? This could be a real deal breaker on the whole compost thing.
That's all I've got for now. Tomorrow we'll be playing in Central Park most of the day--I wish we had a couple more days here. I think we'll head to the zoo, and then we'll need to track down some cotton candy, which was the bribe for getting the children all to sleep in record time (15 minutes from prayers to snoozing away!) I told them they either had to be asleep, or be faking it so good that we didn't know they were awake. (Fake snoring automatically disqualified the cotton candy--we had to nip that in the bud when they started demonstrating their convincing snoring to each other.)
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