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Year 4 - Garden?

No, I am not giving up on our garden, but if we had big life changes last year (read: baby), this year was holy moly Batman!

Short story:  We sold our house for a parking lot development.  In exchange, we were able to get a new house with less issues and a MUCH smaller yard.

Our old property was on 1/3 acre, great for space, horrible for maintaining a lawn.  So when we saw the smaller yard, we were thrilled!

See - small yard!




Until it comes to garden planning.  I have a blank slate. A small, blank slate.  Do I want to put it a garden of the same size (25x10)? Something smaller?  Raised beds or in the ground?

The answer?  I have no clue.  I think I want to hire a landscaper in the near future to help us come up with a general plan for the whole property that we can slowly work on for the next few years.

This summer I might try my hand at some container gardening and just throwing some zucchini seeds in the ground to see what happens.  You can grow those anywhere right?

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