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Friday, January 28, 2011

In My Backyard...





I have a tiny backyard that scarcely accomodates a fold-out clothesline. Despite its size (or lack thereof) I've been growing a few hardy edibles there over the past couple of years - tomatoes, rhubarb, rosemary, parsley, mint, oregano and marjoram. I can't tell you the joy this little strip of garden gives me. I give it very little attention and yet it rewards me not only with delicious food but with amazing natural phenomena like truly bizarre rhubarb flowers which grow as high as the fence and wonderful St Andrews Cross Spiders that spin web that would make Charlotte proud. What's lurking in your backyard?

10 comments:

  1. This is wonderful Caz. We've still got a Christmas tree lurking in ours....I can't bear to recycle it yet because it's still green an luscious...I can't wait until it's time to start planting edible things like you.....

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  2. Yay for you. It's great to be able to do what you can with what you have. And so satisfying to be able to say you grew it yourself.

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  3. Deb, I think it's lovely that you still have your Christmas tree out the back. We have Hot Cross Buns and Easter eggs in all the shops already - too early I say!

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  4. Thanks for the encouragement Katie. It is a seriously small space it's amazing just how much you can produce from such a small area.

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  5. Wow - look at your lovely garden!! It's so very productive.

    I have lots of things lurking in my backyard, in fact it's probably safe to say it's wildly out of control in both the plant and spider departments! ;)

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  6. Love the plants, but eeeek, can't even look at the spider (can barely even type the s word!)

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  7. we haven't any yard at all but if we did it would be under 21 inches of snow just now :) your veggies gave me a much needed reminder of warmer times (yep, that spider gave me the EEEKs!, too).

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  8. PS. I tagged you on my blog, but there's absolutely no pressure to take part (just if you'd like to).

    :)

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  9. Wow!! That's amazing!!!
    Vegetables gardens always so excites me! We are very slow and slack with ours... I would really like to start and grow some of our own food.

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  10. Sandra and Lucy

    Sorry for freaking you out with the spider. Don't forget that the photo is a close-up so in reality it wasn't that big!

    Tracey

    Thanks for the tag - I'd love to join in. Still haven't shared my 'Pearls of Wisdom' for Deb yet so I'm a few posts behind but I'll get onto it in the next couple of days.

    Galit

    Hi. Thanks for visiting. I'm pretty 'slow and slack' with your vegies too but they don't seem to mind. This year I've also had quite a lot of luck with things in pots too - strawberries, blueberries, cumquats. Somehow I always feel more responsible for watering and attending to plants in pots than to those actually planted in the ground. They also seem to be less affected by bugs (touch wood!).

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