back in the vegetable patch

Last year, the first in the new house, I fixed salads that included avocado from the tree and tomatoes from the plants in the backyard. It was pretty cool … and a first for me.

The green beauties have not ripened yet but I see some tiny fruit high up. I did not have time replant tomatoes but plan to next year. One of the things I still don’t understand about the prior owner was that she planted stuff along the lakefront side of the yard, virtually barricading the view (in addition to veggies, there are all sorts of flowering vines on the fence and trees next to them). I’m thinking she did not really like the lake … the two bedroom windows have deep awnings that make it hard to see out.

But I digress.

So, I was thinking: What about putting the veggie garden to the far right side of the front yard, with a picket fence around it? It’s a deep and fairly wide front yard, so I could pick up 8×4 feet easily without too great a sacrifice. That’s the only spot I can think of that would get good sun.

Weird to put a vegetable garden in the front yard?

I know, I know: I need to stop inventing new projects when I have so many loose ends. I can’t seem to help myself.

More on veggie gardening from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/dining/11garden.html