Greetings; new here

[stefanie_bean]

Hi, all: I'm new to Dreamwidth and this forum. I garden about 400 square feet in the backyard of my suburban house. This year it's been hard, because our garden flooded out three times this spring due to unusually strong and heavy rains. The garden managed to hang on, though, and now I'm harvesting tomatoes and eggplants. Recently I pulled up the exhausted cucumbers in order to do a fall planting of bush beans and snow peas. Our cucumbers were good to us this summer; it was sad to see them go.

I'm looking forward to meeting you and reading about your gardens.

Finally, here's an article some of you might find interesting. It's about a "suburban homesteader" in a community near St. Louis, who's turned his modest back yard into a hive of production. Also, under the cut is a shot of his garden.

Comments

[feroxargentea]

Hey, another Dreamwidth newbie here. Your garden looks pretty fantastic, especially considering it got flooded. Whereabouts are you? Somewhere warm enough to grow tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines outdoors - that must be so nice.

[amalnahurriyeh]

That is a totally intimidating garden. I have, like, some boxes. In my paved backyard. In Brooklyn. And cats keep ruining it. *shakes fist at cats, then goes to put more catfood on the back porch*

Amazing that your garden survived the floods! Go go plants!

[starprincess]

That guy's garden is pretty cool.