Clint and I have flirted with the idea of a garden since we've been married. The first year in our first house, we planted a few containers and then built two large boxes that never got used. This year, we picked up the book Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew (who is also writing for the online publication Meridian Magazine this year and has a Web site here) and built three boxes. We found a local nursery that with fantastic prices and brought several home. All before we realized that the boxes needed to be approved by the Home Owners Association. And before we were told by a neighbor that vegetable gardens were not allowed. Fortunately, that information was mistaken, and the HOA approved our boxes. Of course, now that we have approval to move forward, the forecast for the next ten days calls for rain every day!Hopefully things will be dry enough at some point this weekend to start planting. I'm looking forward to homegrown tomatoes.
The image is from a poster in the World War II Poster Collection at Northwestern University.
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Hey Sarah, Uncle Mike here. We did sfg in UT and we're doing it again this year. It's the only way to go. Tiff is the brains of the operation so feel free to email her if you have any questions.
FUN!
I'm so glad your HOA wasn't weird about the planting!
you are putting it in the backyard, right? i didn't realize HOA was all up in ya backyard biz....at least you aren't growing pot back there!
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