KatPowers
Member since: Jun 08 | Last seen: Jan 08 | Years gardening: 6 | Organic gardener
I have no idea what I’m doing, but I like to eat what I grow. So do my kids.
Gardens
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Zone 6a Most of the plantings are from the previous, late owner, Tom Montgomery. We’re just maintaining a lot of what he poured his heart into.
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Zone 6a Some of this stuff has to move around. And some of it has to look pretty for guests. I guess that’s why I’m moving it around.
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Zone 6a This is the patch abandoned when the previous owner died. In spring 2008, Dominick helped clear the old beds of leaves, weeds and ivy, and Deion to...
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Zone 6a This is the one spot of constant sun I can plant, so I jam everything I can in — the bed is closely planted, sifted with peat moss and then m...
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Zone 6a Dominick needed a place to get out his aggression, so we let him whack away at anything he found growing along the fence — mostly scrubby-loo...
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Zone 6a We needed a place to dump clay before taking it to the dump. When digging up the clay, we had found the previous owner had been gardening on that v...
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Zone 6a This garden is dictated by the landlady’s tastes. Everything is mulched and pretty from the street, and I usually get around to weeding it be...
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Zone 6a I really tried with this bed, and I can’t make it work. When we first moved in, the landlady had planted marigolds that didn’t take ver...
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