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I've been garden designing again. :-)
I've long-since come to the conclusion that I'd like as many of the plants in my eventual Big-House/Big-Garden to be edible in some way, whether as tea, or salad fixings and herbs, or as berries, fruits and nuts. I also want to avoid having to mow the lawn. So I'm looking to have really big, multi-level decks (including a play house for the kids, I think), as well as gravel paths inter-planted with creaping thyme, baby's tears, and all sorts of stuff like that there.
If I do have wide open "lawn-type" spaces, I will plant dutch (only 3" high) clover which can take one heck of a beating and still look good. :-) (Plus, it's good for the soil).
I want to under-plant my trees (oh, there are trees) with creeping juniper, and... lingon berries? (Not sure...) as well as pink purselane, and other perenial vegetables (wild spinach, for example).
I kind of want a pond of the sort that will grow wild rice, and cat-tales in it, a fiddle-head greens (ostrich ferns) and blueberries around it.
There will be a whole raised bed of bramble fruits -- hardy roses, plus three kinds of raspberries (red, black, and purple-flowering).
Gooseberries, red and black currants, service berries and honey-berries, will (I think) complete the soft-fruits of my yard, while Spartan and Macintosh Apples, as well as chestnuts (I hope), a beach tree, and hazel nuts will be for keeper-fruit and protein. Yummy. :-)
Twelve raised beds for vegetables. (Mostly winter squash, I confess -- I am developing an obsession/love for winter squash -- I think one of my Gods wears Squash Blossoms in her hair, along with tiger lilies, in the summer time).
But there would also be at least six (probably many more) types of pole beans and a few types of peas, as well.
Let's see... Butternut, ambercup, buttercup, Canadian Crookneck, small sugar, gold nugget, jack be little, carnival pepper, blue ballet, calabasa (if it'll grow here... it's like a giant Panima butternut, they're amazing!), dumpling, little jem, heart of gold, bush and baby delectas, sweet mama, acorn, green warted hubbards... All sorts of squash...
Scarlet Runner, Pink Lady Runner, rattlesnake pole, romano pole, ford hook pole, florida butter pole, christmas lima pole (if possible), blue lake pole, kentucky wonder pole, kentucky blue pole, tongue of fire pole, ramdor yellow pole, con amore fava (bush), and if I can find it, a purple-podded pole bean (like royal burgundy, but a pole bean rather than a bush bean...)
I think I would like to grow corn, although I don't know if it would work. I'd also like to find a climbing or leaf spinach that could be picked leaf-by-leaf (like baby spinach or bunch spinach, rather than the really curley stuff you get in bags at the grocery store)...
Anywhoo. I've got to get dressed for work now, so I must toodle off. :-)
As suc, I leave you with this last bit of news: There was a humming bird in my garden yesterday morning! :-D
I think she (no bright red head, so probably female) must have come for the scarlet runner beans! Woohoo! :-D Yay for humming birds! :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
I've long-since come to the conclusion that I'd like as many of the plants in my eventual Big-House/Big-Garden to be edible in some way, whether as tea, or salad fixings and herbs, or as berries, fruits and nuts. I also want to avoid having to mow the lawn. So I'm looking to have really big, multi-level decks (including a play house for the kids, I think), as well as gravel paths inter-planted with creaping thyme, baby's tears, and all sorts of stuff like that there.
If I do have wide open "lawn-type" spaces, I will plant dutch (only 3" high) clover which can take one heck of a beating and still look good. :-) (Plus, it's good for the soil).
I want to under-plant my trees (oh, there are trees) with creeping juniper, and... lingon berries? (Not sure...) as well as pink purselane, and other perenial vegetables (wild spinach, for example).
I kind of want a pond of the sort that will grow wild rice, and cat-tales in it, a fiddle-head greens (ostrich ferns) and blueberries around it.
There will be a whole raised bed of bramble fruits -- hardy roses, plus three kinds of raspberries (red, black, and purple-flowering).
Gooseberries, red and black currants, service berries and honey-berries, will (I think) complete the soft-fruits of my yard, while Spartan and Macintosh Apples, as well as chestnuts (I hope), a beach tree, and hazel nuts will be for keeper-fruit and protein. Yummy. :-)
Twelve raised beds for vegetables. (Mostly winter squash, I confess -- I am developing an obsession/love for winter squash -- I think one of my Gods wears Squash Blossoms in her hair, along with tiger lilies, in the summer time).
But there would also be at least six (probably many more) types of pole beans and a few types of peas, as well.
Let's see...
Scarlet Runner, Pink Lady Runner, rattlesnake pole, romano pole, ford hook pole, florida butter pole, christmas lima pole (if possible), blue lake pole, kentucky wonder pole, kentucky blue pole, tongue of fire pole, ramdor yellow pole, con amore fava (bush), and if I can find it, a purple-podded pole bean (like royal burgundy, but a pole bean rather than a bush bean...)
I think I would like to grow corn, although I don't know if it would work. I'd also like to find a climbing or leaf spinach that could be picked leaf-by-leaf (like baby spinach or bunch spinach, rather than the really curley stuff you get in bags at the grocery store)...
Anywhoo. I've got to get dressed for work now, so I must toodle off. :-)
As suc, I leave you with this last bit of news: There was a humming bird in my garden yesterday morning! :-D
I think she (no bright red head, so probably female) must have come for the scarlet runner beans! Woohoo! :-D Yay for humming birds! :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
