What do you think of our raised garden? Looks pretty good, huh?

What’s that? Where exactly is it? Why, on our back deck, of course!

As we entered our first spring here in the new house, we’ve had to rethink our kitchen garden. The house is south-facing, which means the front yard is really sunny, and the backyard is mostly shade. We love it that way, with no sun glaring in the back windows into the living room. But it creates a dilemma for someone who likes to grow vegetables. At our old house, a veggie garden in the front yard was no big deal. With 8+ acres, our place felt like a farm anyway. Here in suburbia, however, we’re doing our best to not alienate our new neighbors. (At least to make up for our Bumpus dogs who bark at them all the time.)

So we had to look for a good place out back. And we found one spot in the whole backyard that got more than 4 hours of sun per day. That spot just happened to be ON our deck. So there you go: a raised garden on the deck. I have to say, it’s convenient to go out and pick lettuce or water everything. But it felt a little weird toting big bags of potting soil through the house to fill it up. (The only way to get to our deck.)

Well, anyway, as you might have guessed from the photo, we’re trying to grow tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, beans, a lone zucchini plant (that will probably take over the entire bed), and a bunch of different herbs. Hopefully, something will survive for us to harvest.

And as for what we’ll do with the bed and all of its dirt this winter…. I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

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