Recycle & Reuse in an Edible Landscape

You really have to check this out. It's an amazingly simple idea. Reclaimed gutters to plant greens, lettuce, low growing edibles. And it looks nice, too. These would also be great mounted on a fence...a new take on the living fence. Enjoy.

Temperature Swings Are Like Mood Swings - You Never Know What You're Going to Get

Springtime in the upper midwest could mean 80 degrees and sunny, 50 degrees and threatening, or 30 degrees and a foot and a half of snow! It's so much like mood swings that you have to be ready to take cover at any time! Case in point, it was 80 degrees and absolutely gorgeous yesterday - a great day to work on the edible landscape. Today, it's in the 40s, cloudy and threatening storms. The rest of the weekend we're looking at rain and snow mixed...but hopefully not just snow.

This time of year is tough on a gardener who longs to get outside and plant things, yet knows it's just too early. To plant now is to commit herbicide, so we wait. And we tend to our seedlings started indoors. And we wait. The good news is that we're just a couple weeks away from having to worry about snow for awhile.

This is especially good because I have a couple new beds to put in this year and my Pineapple Tomatillo seeds should arrive any day. I found these in the Cook's Garden catalog and I'm dying to try them out. They're supposed to have a flavor similar to pineapple. This is just one of the many things I'll keep you posted on as my edible landscape comes back to life and is embellished with more delicious plants.

'til later
Happy Gardening!