Our Front Yard Garden

Last year my husband and I decided to grow a garden. Because, you know, remodeling a 60 year old house wasn't keeping us busy enough. Since we have ZERO sun in our backyard and live in a community that will pretty much let you put anything in your front yard, including a giant metal rooster, we planted our garden out front. We kept it simple last year with two 4x4 above ground garden boxes and stuck to the basics: basil, tomatoes, spinach, collard greens, etc. Everything grew pretty well and we were happy.

So happy, in fact, that we decided to expand...by about 400%. We cut down the much hated Mimosa Tree and tilled up pretty much the entire east side of our yard (we went in ground this time to save money). I was charged with research and garden layout. M was charged with the manual labor. And before you start thinking I got the easy part of the job, do you know how many rules there are about growing and not growing plants near each other? After a couple of weeks of planning and a couple of weekends of hard but satisfying work, we have our garden.

Voila!