Comments on: The Great Garden Experiment

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:12:54 +0000

There’s something about getting your hands dirty. It’s just really calming for me.

By: Zea

Zea — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:54:45 +0000

Oh! How wonderful! I can’t wait to see pictures as the garden progresses.

I, too, love getting my hands dirty with good, clean soil.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:34:39 +0000

1) It made digging the spot so much easier! If you’re going to do an in-the-ground garden, you’ve got to find someone who owns one, or maybe see if Home Depot (etc.) rents them out.
2) and 3) Awesome! I’m going to try that. I’ve never made summer rolls, or any type of similar roll…exciting!

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:22:11 +0000

1) I want a ground chewer contraption–lucccccky!
2) You want Thai basil.
3) Buy rice paper and use the Thai basil and mint and cilantro to make summer rolls!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:06:49 +0000

No, we gave up because it took so long (and cost a fair amount more than store-bought food). We’re feeding them Wellness-brand cat food, which Sabrina recommended to us. They seem to be doing well on it, and my vet (who also practices holistic pet medicine) said that’s what he feeds his cats.

By: Yana

Yana — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:19:36 +0000

Our cat eats any plants or flowers we bring into the house, too. And if I bring him outside, he just eats grass the entire time. It must be some nutrient he’s missing from his diet. Which reminds me, are you still doing the homemade cat food?

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:18:08 +0000

I’m sure you’ll have a great garden one day! Houseplants are the way to go. I wish we could keep plants indoors, but Oliver eats them. In fact, he got into the office tonight and chewed up some cut roses I just put out on my desk! That cat…

By: Kir

Kir — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:23:08 +0000

I love your little garden! Oooh, enjoy the gardening process. And yes, it may take some time to learn it all, but I’m sure google has the answers to many basic issues you could face. I think my parents did the box gardening – where they “artificially” put in the soil – and they do have some lovely veggies flowing out of it. I’m also hoping to inherit the green thumb. The three plants in my house seem to be doing well, so far so good. I love the picture of dirt in your hands… that is such a wonderful feeling. One day, I hope to have a little garden… and by then, I’m sure you’ll have enough experiences under your belt to dish out some advice!

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:19:15 +0000

My aunt and uncle in California have had great success with raised beds. I’m sure you’ll have good luck with yours in the fall!

Goodness, you guys have been busy at your house. I’ve seen driveways in our neighborhood that are half-paved. Someone told me the neighborhood was started without storm drains running under the driveways, and later they put them in and residents could pay for the lower half of the driveway to be re-paved or choose to have it filled with gravel. Very peculiar indeed.

By: Yana

Yana — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:55:16 +0000

I am so excited for you! Please do keep a journal and share your insights. We missed spring planting season, so we will have to wait until fall. Here in FL it’s already summer and 90 degrees every day. It’s very exciting that you get to plant right in the ground. Since we have such sandy soil, we have been told to try box gardening. Basically, we’ll make 4×4 boxes and fill them with actual good soil and then plant our vegetables.

For now, we are finishing renovations on the enclosed porch. We put in baseboards last weekend (well, Pete did; I mostly watched). Next is the deck, then stucco on the outside of the porch. We are also getting a new front door put in and our driveway finished and hopefully expanded. For some reason, in the 50s, they only paved half of the driveways. The half by the street is dirt. Weird. Those two things we are actually paying people to do. I don’t think our talents extend to door hanging.

Best of luck on your garden! Will you mail me a tomato from your first crop?