I haven’t posted anything in the hive garden community for two months now, because it has been deep winter in the northeast US. Not a dark winter as our commander-in-chief predicted a few months ago, but a cold one for sure. There were days I did not even open a door, let alone step outside. On those days I would dream about gardening, about the dwarf fruit trees I will plant in my tiny yard, about the asphalt I will reclaim for a flower garden, about the vines I'll get growing on trellises to improve privacy without taking up floor space, about cucumbers surviving this year. The diminutive back yard, currently all flowers but that gets lots of sun, will go instead into food production. Trouble is, what to do about the maple and the viburnum and the junipers that take up 1/3 of that back yard? I believe that to kill a tree is to kill a man. Getting rid of any perennial here is going to be very difficult for me, even the great many useless yews that are taking up precious space.
Leave the dreaming behind woman, it’s time to get some stuff done.
I know it's not much, but it's all I've got growing at present, beside some alfalfa sprouts.
I still have to polish this so it's not in the photo, but I managed to find a copper windowsill tray for these pots. My mother gave me the tray many years ago, when I first became interested in gardening. I had purchased a plot of land and a brownstone, in Brooklyn NY, with a 900 square foot back yard of cement and grass - my first garden! It wasn't long before I had transformed the yard into a very private cottage garden. I think this will forever be my favorite garden. Perhaps you can see why in the thumbnail image, which was taken in one of the early years, before I got sick of the challenge of keeping the Cistus erect, before I got rid of the cast iron sink-planter in the back right corner, before I put the most beautiful rosa rugosa in its stead. The rest of my photos of this garden have been buried somewhere in my garage since my move here, so I can provide only this one.
Or should I say the rinky dink propagating kit that cost me $40 and was purchased a few days before I moved from my old house to my new one.
I plan to get some spinach going in this one, because good, organic spinach has proven to be nearly impossible to find in these backwoods boondocks. I've ordered a more grown-up light grow light set up for my future seedlings for the outside.
Today I plan to go out and sow some bread seed poppies.
There's so much to do in a new house!!! Even though I am keeping my plans much smaller than most of you are, I wonder how, or if, I will get it all done.
Much love to you all.
This isn't really a garden selfie, it was taken just last night by my friend Jeff. That's her husband Chris on the guitar. Thank goodness this backwoods boondocks town has a great open mic, and that I encountered Jeff and Chris!
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