The Revenge of Gardening Revisited

Way back in June, I told you about my new adventures in gardening — last year we tried vegetables, this year we decided to add flowers. Here’s how it went… Last year, our yard was 1/6 vegetables and, ahem, 5/6 weeds. This year we finally sprang for landscaping — nothing fancy, just grass and three plots, one for vegetables (about the same size as last year’s) and two for decorative vegetation. Having grass instead of weeds made the yard look fabulous even before we started planting stuff. Then we populated our vegetable garden and flower beds, and sat back to see what would grow.

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