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Friday, April 10, 2009

Where My Rosemary Goes

Today I spent the morning cleaning up the garden. We're still almost two months away from growing season in MD, but I am on break and I'm eager to get started. I cleaned out all of the leaves that gathered in the garden and underneath the porch. I dumped all of the old soil from the planter boxes and pots. I pulled weeds and cut back the perennials. And I laid down a thick layer of compost. Needless to say, I smelled fantastic and my work gloves will forever reek of poo. (Karmella loved it. According to our vet, she "loves the stink.") The next two months will let the manure and humus nutrients seep into the soil so that by the time planting happens, our soil will be nice and refreshed.



You can tell our rosemary plants are very healthy. I might have to trim them down a little. The nubs up front are two sage plants that I trimmed down. The patches on the sides are oregano. We used to grow chives, but I pulled them up when we discovered that the ones that grow naturally in our yard and everywhere else you look are 1) free, and 2) much more flavorful. No use wasting garden space on them.

Since most of our weekly produce comes from our CSA (and also 'case we're poor), we're going to scale back on the variety in our garden this year. We're going to focus on tomatoes and hot peppers, as we eat more of them than anything else.
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