Growing Up, October 2011

It rained this week which had me thinking about our garden. This will definitely not be the last mention of our garden on these pages. When we moved in our yard was mostly dry dirt and weeds. To some that might be ugly, but to us it was ours for the planting. We started with the planter in the middle of the yard because it contained and easiest to decide what to plant there. We decided to go with herbs and edible flowers.

First Katie removed all the landscaping rocks.

 

Then we started planting the herbs: mint, lemon balm, chamomile and lavender.

We dug out the pinetree bush and the lilies.

Now we have these herbs: oregano, parsley, cilantro, chives, lemon balm, lavender, chamomile, sage and peppermint. And these edible flowers: borage, nasturtium,  calendula, snapdragon, pansy and viola.