Ah, what a beautiful summer day! Weather's in the upper 70s and the boys and I had a blast. We rode our bikes til the tires fell off and got to spend time with a really nice neighborhood couple and their two girls that are the same ages as my boys. After we all got tired riding, we were treated to Otter Pops and watermelon in their back yard. Can you say yard envy!? They had at least 100 feet by 50 feet of southern exposure flat back yard. I just couldn't resist drooling over it and telling them that I could do wonders with their yard.
I then proceeded to suggest what they could do with their side garden areas. They were growing a bit of stuff, though mostly weeds (aren't we all). Of course, they were growing great flowers. We ended up taking about three beds that could be used to grow food. I explained how they could grow tons in those beds. I wasn't about to go all Mel on them, but I did talk of intensive gardening and succession planting. They seemed impressed. I even offered to help how I could. Man, if only I could make money doing this, hehe.
We sure had fun, but talking lettuce to them was a bit of an issue. The husband is Asian, so I had to change my tune to bok choy and the like. Came home and looked it up in the "book", only to find Mel's not big on Asian greens. Best I could find on the internet was 9/SF, which makes sense as they harvest baby bok choy. They seemed happy that after the initial work outlay, there wouldn't be much work, and also that they could grow tons of fresh veggies. Best of all the ability to save tons of money on produce costs was a big hit.
Our last topic of course was compost. They've got a great spot for it. Anyone have any good ideas to cheaply keep dogs out of your compost? I don't have that problem. I thought of a pallet to block it, and of course chicken wire, but what else?
Alas, sorry for yet another post without pictures. I just don't have the camera with me these days. What would you grow if you had 150 SF?
Enjoy your garden!
Mostly I'd grow what I grow now, but on a smaller scale. I wouldn't grow to preserve for the winter, but just to eat fresh. But still you can grow a lot in 150sqft. I had just over 200 in my last garden and I could grow most of what I ate in the summer with a small bit of it preserved.
ReplyDeleteHmm my dogs never got into the compost. I had one of those black plastic ones for the kitchen scraps, but it was in my garden and it was fenced. They only went in there if I was there too. The rest of the compost was in the back where they could easily get to. But it was mostly grass clippings and leaves. So they weren't particularly interested unless the mice invaded it.