Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

I do love to garden, and wish I had more hours in each day to do it. I do plant from seed each year, including starting my tomatoes indoors in March or so, but it would be nice to have a greenhouse or at least cold frames, to extend the season, but, each year, wehn i think about it, my other seasons are filled with design work and sales. Summer is slow in the knitting business, so it's really the only season available to me, time-wise, for extraneous activities.

I have a smallish garden, consisting of 6 raised beds, about 4' wide and each about 12' long. In one bed lies the asparagus plants, now in their 5th year, I think, and another bed holds 2 new (planted last spring) blueberry bushes - how I love blueberries! The other beds get a different veggie each year - crop rotation. All my veggies are heirloom varieties and organically grown. Ronde de Nice zucchini, a variety of tomatoes, snow peas, a variety of lettuces and bush beans, but i haven't planted any beans ina few years, as the Romano beans I love haven't been available from my seed source - The Cook's Garden, in CT, I think: http://www.cooksgarden.com

There's a green wire fence around the garden, thanks to the deer, groundhogs, chipmunks, wild turkeys, geese, and heaven knows what else wanders the lawns at night!

I've been thinking that snow pea vines are like children. They are delicate and easily broken, so as they grow, one can only *suggest* them into weaving into the bamboo teepees I've made for them. Push too hard and they snap, but *guide* them, and they will more or less go where they should go, and thrive happily.
Dawn