The gardens before this one.
December 2019 is where this place and the timeline both begin. Before that there were other gardens: rental lawns, whatever corner we could dig up, and little beds built with the kids wherever we happened to be living. This page is for those.
My dad's quarter acre
Where I learned all of it. A large garden on a quarter acre section, and the year he planted the whole thing in beans. Read the full story →
Two beds cut into the rental lawn
The girls were small, and I wanted them in the garden before they were old enough to think of it as a chore. So I cut two raised beds into the back lawn and we filled them together. Read the full story →
Peas, strawberries, and the Black Doris
The beds hit their stride: sugar snap peas, radishes, lettuce and strawberries. Out the back was an old Black Doris plum, and this was the year it gave us boxes of fruit. Read the full story →
The year everyone pitched in
A New Year's Day beetroot bigger than any I have grown since, a bucket of tomatoes in January, and a spring where the whole family was out planting. Read the full story →
