It is the garden of someone with an obssessive compulsive personality who becomes very agitated if a plant strays out of place. Who shrieks if a weed actually arises from the pristine black soil.
Someone who PLANTS CABBAGES IN A CHECKERBOARD PATTERN, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!! This is not a normal garden.
THIS is a really truly garden. The plants grow in happy abandon, shoulder to shoulder with wild compatriots (otherwise known as "weeds") in a universe of diverse personalities, helping each other along. Diversity is a Good Thing. Just ask Martha.This is OUR garden. We don't get real excited about weeds. Or straight rows. Or checkerboards. Even the "Square Foot" demo bed is more like 16-18" squares - or rectangles - I think there's even a sort of triangle in there, with three bean plants.
HOWEVER. This garden produces. It is a happy place. The toads love it. The wrens and sparrows love it. The turkeys love it. Even when they aren't supposed to.
At the drop of a pair of kitchen shears, I can collect in a few short minutes all the ingredients for a stir fry, or veggie pilaf, or frittata.
It is a joy to wander through this garden, with surprises at every step. It's like an Easter Egg Hunt every time you do a walk-about. Just don't step on a toad. That is NOT a good thing.This garden is a family garden. A place for kids, and toads, and turkeys, and...
...even this. We have a non-discrimination policy in this garden.
EXCEPT for Squash beetles and Potato bugs. They are NOT welcome.
EXCEPT for Squash beetles and Potato bugs. They are NOT welcome. The turkeys make sure they realize that, too. We don't call them Einsteins just for fun, you know.
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I love it! It made me feel better about the condition of my garden :):).
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