I had a garden once a LONG time ago. The first time I planted anything at all NOTHING came up. The second season things came up and nothing produces. The third season, third times a charm…. things came up and most of it actually produced.
My grandparents were alive at the time and I lived next door to them. My grandfather was retired and an avid gardener and gave me pointers and helped.
Now years and years later I am in my own house. My dirt is like cement, white and hard as a rock. If I got past this…. Now that I have grass in my backyard (for probably the first time EVER in the 11 years that I have lived here) that is growing in placed I thought impossible, I would have to try and kill the grass- somehow in a green sort of way).
THEN…. if I actually got that far, how would I keep the dogs out of it??? I dream of building a cute little white picket fence with a cute arch and a cute little swinging gate. Sounds cute, doesn’t it??
I have no skill and wouldn’t even begin to know how to do this. All the tools and the knowledge to use them, all the hardware and to know where it all should be placed, the fencing and types of fencing and putting it all together. WoW! Here comes the fetal position, again.
I thought if I actually had a garden in the winter then I might not have to worry about the grass…. that is as far as my thought process goes with that. On a poor persons budget, how would I make the concrete (ie the ground) richer?? The dogs eat any type of homemade compost material that I might put in a pile. I thought about sand and then rototilling it, but to get a rototiller…..
I wonder just how far I will actually get on this goal….. EVER?!!
