I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Matt and I have decided to take on redoing the landscaping in front of our house. We are creating a space for both a flower garden and an herb garden and are taking on the flower garden first.  In order to ensure we made the best use of space and selected the correct types of plants we have done a lot of research online.  Through our research we learned that the “best” way to ensure you have a flower garden you are happy with is to draw out the design.  So we did just that.  Because I am hopeless when it comes to drawing, Matt sketched out the basic shape of our space, and I filled in blobs that were in the approximate shape of plants we want.  You can see our sketch below.

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Matt and I have started on a new adventure this week.  After living in our new house for a year and a half, we have decided it is finally time to take on the front lawn landscaping.  While we are pretty competent food gardeners, neither of us have any experience with this type of work. But as Matt says, “people do this every day”. So, we have decided to rip out the existing, unpleasant landscaping and replace it with an herb garden and flower garden. (more…)