Iris I love gardening. You just can't beat the taste and nutrition you get from growing your own produce or the beauty of growing ...

Food Not Lawns

Iris
I love gardening. You just can't beat the taste and nutrition you get from growing your own produce or the beauty of growing your own flowers. It just makes so much more sense, too. Instead of wasting precious resources (water, land, time) growing lawns, we should be growing food! Grass makes little sense. If you live somewhere dry, like Nevada, it requires a ton of water. And even here in the Northwest where we have tons of water, it gets completely overrun with weeds, crab grass, clover, vines, blackberry bushes, pretty much everything except the grass you want. The only way to keep it nice is to spend hours pulling weeds or spraying it with toxic crap. I'd much rather spend time, money, and water on a garden.

Mini Calla Lily
For years we've done what we could with container gardening. We've done okay but still had the urge to grow more. This year we got approval from the landlord to build a raised bed in the front yard. It turned out to be a very easy and cheap project. We read a few tutorials, but I think this one helped the most. We spent about $25 on wood and had them cut it to size at the store. We spent maybe $20 on several bags of organic soil and mixed it with soil we found for free off Craigslist.

The finished bed
May 9th

This weekend we added a drip system to save water and make our lives much easier. Figuring out what to buy took a bit since there are a ton of options, but we went with the simplest and cheapest and it turned out really good. If we hadn't done this in the heat of the day it would've been easy!

Drip line through the bed
A dripper for each plant

Homemade trellis for pumpkin plants... made out of sticks... because we're cool ;)
June 29th... grow baby grow
I just love coming home to see my garden instead of a tiny patch of weed overrun grass!  So next time, think twice before you buy sod or grass seed, and make sure your lawn wouldn't actually be better off as a garden!
Nasturtium

2 comments:

  1. Nasturtiums are awesome. They taste great too. You have a beautiful front yard. I love it. Grass is a completely useless waste of water. Very cool natural trellis!

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    1. Thank you Howie! I hope more people do the same with their front yards!

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