Eating our Yard

We are going to try integrating herbs and other vegetable garden plants into our regular landscape.  We found a lovely little rosemary plant on sale for $4 (it was from the Christmas holiday) that we planted in our front yard.  We figure it'll be easy to run out there and pick some for cooking that way, and it looks nice.   I doubt most people will even realize it is an edible if they walked by our house! It is still winter here right now, which is why the center island looks so rough and there is no real green grass.

  

Composting!

We decided over the winter to start composting our yard and kitchen waste.  We'd been just dumping it all behind the electrical box in our backyard!  We finally broke down and purchased a composting bin after research several options, including building our own.  We like the look of this one and it meets our needs for now.

We got a Thermoquick Profi 410. It was easy to put together, doesn't take up much space, has nice doors at the bottom to harvest the compost (so that you can continue to put in new waste at the top), and looks nice.  Lil-S and Lil-M are putting some yard waste from our palm grass plant into the composter. 

Winter/Spring 2009 - Preparing the garden beds

Well, spring is coming and it was time to start preparing for this year's garden.  J added two new 4x4 beds in addition to our 4x8 bed from last year.  J also prepared an area on the side of the house. We already have garlic in the ground - and lots of it.  Kale, turnips, spinach, and peas are already planted in the ground.