Growing Flowers, Fruits & Veggies

Lets just say my pot garden needs help help help!

We appear to have gone right from summer to winter!   This week we even got our first snow.  Sadly I still have to clear the brush out of the pots, and haul EVERYTHING back into garage!  ICK!  THAT is the MAJOR challenge of pot gardens.  I now have around 70-80 pots to remove the tomato stakes from, clear out the brush and move them all into the garage!  Hopefully this weekend is suposed to get back into the 50's so it will be more doable than today.  Ironically enough I still have a couple tomatoes in the house that I still have to eat but that will be the end of my crops for the year!

When I moved in this house I was renting. Landlord said I could put in garden as long as I turned it back to grass when I moved.  That was in 97 and last year I finally bought the house, so I can do what I want.

I never really planned to have that many pots, it just sort of grew over the years.

I also have a bad knee and do not do well walking on unlevel ground which can include just regular lawns. The only outside faucet for the house is right by the driveway so that works out to.  I might end up putting in some raised beds, but have to figure out a way to do it safely for me. The yard is not that big, and there is a black walnut tree behind next house and moles have really done a number on the grass.

So far I have not planned ahead to next year but will have to see how things go.

I am very happy to say that I did have oodles of tomatoes and even peppers this year. Even with those little twerps(chippies) swiping some.

One of the known risks with my house is that something, we believe said black walnut in addition to scattering ankle breaker nuts, also has roots that can invade and block up sewer pipes big time!!  The landlord paid for the last 2 roto rooter calls, and I know I will have to in the future.   But given that the roots are coming under my driveway which is very long I dread digging up pipes and replacing them! 

I tend to call those little treats limenuts.  about the size of a lime, and in good(or maybe bad) years they can be almost 1 for every inch of the yard!!   it appears this is one of the lean years!  I have not seen a bunch.  I think the original owners may have put the metal awnings on the bedroom windows in self defense from those stupid nuts. Lets just say when they rain down it can really scare the H out of ya!  Sounds like someone trying to break in!

But that same tree might also explain the huge number of chippies around too!