Rainbarrel followup.

[sara]

In comments to my earlier post about rainbarrels, the subject of really large rain catchment systems came up; I have pix of a local example here.

(gchick, are we tagging posts? I went to look at what I'd used last time to tag and am not able to see any tags. Thanks!)

Intro post

[dendrophilous]

I'm a new gardener. After several years of cramming a few containers onto a tiny balcony or patio, we've just bought a house, and the first part I'm fixing up is the garden.

Part of the vegetable garden got planted yesterday. In future years I might add an auxiliary veg garden in the front yard (where there's more sun), and I definitely want to turn the south end of the back yard into a glorious woodland shade garden. Right now it's a random mix of a few bulbs, two scrawny groundcovers, and weeds galore.

Surprise redesign

[gchick]

Hi all,

I've changed the layout of the comm and tweaked the colors: my thanks go to sara for pointing out that she couldn't see any tags. Let me know if anything looks horribly wrong.

My back garden

[katemonkey]

Most of my back garden is concrete, and in-between leaving space for the bins (trash, recycling and compost) and the clotheslines (so that my clothes don't get covered in pollen or anything), I don't really have much room for large plants or large items.

But I've been working with what I have, and with the room I have, and I'm mostly growing vegetables. I like flowers, but the sheer joy I get from picking something that's grown in my own garden is far more delightful than flowers.

Plus, we both have pretty awful hayfever, and why tempt fate?

( Many more pictures behind the cut )

So that's my garden. I'll probably take more photos over the next few months, to point out developments. I have a gorgeous cedar planter that's going to be my herb garden, but the herbs are sitting in the greenhouse sprouting. And there's corn by the pumpkins, and eventually okra, and then maybe even cotton, if I can get it to grow...

I am such a garden bore.