(Re) Chic

While I was staying with my wonderfully supportive boyfriend who was letting me borrow his car to get back and forth to work (I now have my own set of wheels again...yay!) he and I went for a walk around his neighborhood.   We came across what had once surely been a magnificent community garden complete with a children's garden, raspberry bushes, and herbs. But it was no longer the beauty it once had been.   You could hardly see the vegetables for the weeds and the grass and you could tell that no one had been taking care of it recently.   So this brings me to a frustrating question: should we really create community gardens?  I know you're all screaming "yes! Yes! of course we should!" but this is not the first garden I have seen get neglected by its creators.  Another baby community garden in Wilmington was overlooked almost completely this season, some of the beds were not even planted! Of course we all know the pros of community g...

Not that this one is anything substantial, a majority of the information was actually pre-written officially approved language. But I'm hoping this means they'll also post the second article that I shared with them...either way the photo with the kids was also taken by yours truly! Check it out at the Master Gardening.com Blog!

I have never grown naturtiums before this year.  Apparently they're super easy to grow and don't seem to mind being neglected.   And in this vein, mine has bloomed!  I bought it a few weeks ago at the Master Gardener plant sale because I had recently learned that they're edible and used them in an Edible Landscaping Plan I had created for a garden at the ministry.  So I bought one to try out and with barely remembering to water this hanging basket it has a beautiful orange flower to surprise me today! Apparently they have a slight peppery flavor and both the leaves and flowers are edible.  Since I had some extra space in my square foot garden down the street I also sowed some into that garden.  So I'll let you know how long they take to germinate.  The seeds look like mini human brains and they grow into kinda floppy droppy plants which is why I love them in my hanging basket.  In future posts I want to keep writing about all the p...