We haven't used the front yard for pasture in a couple of years now and we've decided I'm not going to go back to work full-time, so I'm out to reclaim my lost gardens. Not only that, I'm planning to create a bunch more!
Here's the before picture of my roadside garden. If you look close, you can see the remnants of my old garden. There's a few daffodils, grape hyacinth, a few of the 50 tulip bulbs I planted that survived the chickens eating them and the day lilies I planted around the trees. Last year we planted a few rose of sharons. I put some flags next to them so Grampa Whitson wouldn't mow them off.
This garden extended beyond the brush pile from the tree we had cut down this winter. I'll have to wait until Grampa Tom burns that to work down there, but I should get to it this year.
If I were real smart, I'd just kill everything that is planted here and start over. But there are still some things that I have planted there and I'm just too attached to them to let them go, so I'm digging around them and removing the sod that has filled in the vacuum. I think God is like that with us too. He created us, but the enemy came in and overwhelmed us. When we finally get back under His care, He rips out those things that He didn't plant, but He's careful to leave in us what He created in the first place.
Now if only Grampa Tom would get the fence up that should keep most of the chickens in the pasture. He's can find more things to do instead of building fence. Kinda like me and housework ;)
God Bless You All!
~Grama Sue
This is my favorite garden tiller. Grampa Tom likes the ones with more power, but I'm low tech.
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