Gardens are cathartic....

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My granddaughter with last years crop.
I had a garden for several years. I was overexposed to isocyanate in the mid 80's so I decided to let the grass retake possession of that patch of earth in favor of a flower garden and fountain to help me in my convalescence.

Some twenty years later I started hanging tomatoes with bush beans at the base. (see pix no. 1)
This years I thought that I'd expand but due to financial constraints it didn't look promising.
I did manage to get the wood, a yard of 4 year old compost and several other items for free.
I recently received a pick up of flagstone that someone wanted to have removed and they were removed to my yard. We decided to donate this patch to jack o lantern pumpkins and a new type of winter squash.
We have two types of tomatoes, beets, mixed lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, pole beans, peas, peppers, (one jalapeno) three types of squash and the pumpkins.

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Sophia said…
Your granddaughter has such beautiful hair!

We're doing the garden thing, too. I've never had a garden before, though we've grown tomatoes every year. (But I can't lie - it's really my husband's garden because he does all the work! I just get to eat it.)
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