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Gardening, Harvesting and Foraging

Posted on October 9, 2012 by LeolaOctober 23, 2012

If you’ve been following my gardening efforts at all, you have read how I turned my backyard flowerbed into a raised garden this year. Here is the update I wrote about two months later. Above is a picture of how it looked about three weeks ago. It seemed to explode almost overnight! We have had a wonderful late summer/early fall here in the Pacific Northwest. Little to no rain for 80+ days! That means we have had an extended harvest, for which I am very grateful because I got started so late in the spring. Here, let me share what we … Continue reading →

Turning a Flowerbed into a Vegetable Garden, Part One

Posted on May 23, 2012 by LeolaApril 21, 2015

I’ve been a little busy the last couple of weeks. When the weather is good in the Pacific Northwest we go outside, and that is where I went. One of my goals this year is to transform my backyard flowerbed into a vegetable garden. My backyard flowerbed is nicely sized and should make a very nice garden, but it is terribly overgrown with buttercups, weeds, out-of-control ajuga and lemon balm, wild salmon and black berry bushes. Due to a foot problem that I had for about five years and having to work part-time for almost 3 years to pay for … Continue reading →