My name is Kate and I’ve lived in and around the District of Columbia my entire life. I’ve recently landed in a beautiful historical rowhouse in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of D.C. with my media naranja.
For our second anniversary, I was given an incredible gift – a 6′ x 3′ cedar garden bed frame and the offer of any and all plants and supplies I could want for. While a wonderful and thoughtful present (I’d been dreaming out loud about a city house with a garden for quite a while), it also posed a formidable challenge: to figure out the wild and wacky world of vegetable gardening in an urban environment.
So that’s why I’ve started writing the gardening blog, (though I’ve taken some time off to write another…less public blog): To take you on my journey from incredibly plant-unsavvy to Master Gardener. Well, maybe more realistically, “slightly more competent than when I set out.” But that’s ok! It’s all about the journey. (As an update, Dan recently surprised me with ANOTHER 6′ x 3′ cedar garden bed frame – helping me to fulfill my goal of doubling the garden’s size this growing season!)
Thanks for reading and stop by often to let me know what you think. All words of encouragement, wisdom, and well, joke-making are totally welcome.
[...] In other news! The garden looks beautiful! We have 11 varieties of tomato growing out back – 2 determinate and 9 indeterminate, ranging from yellow pear-shaped cherry tomatoes, to HUGE beefsteak heirlooms. When these babies start producing fruit you’ll be the first ones to know! In the meanwhile, be satisfied to know that flowers are blooming and bees are buzzing. :-) We also have several herb varieties growing and if this summer is anything like last summer the basil may start shading the second story of the house – but we’ll have to wait and see for now. For those of you who’d like to read our romantic story about how the garden became the garden, you can read about it here: http://mtpleasantgarden.wordpress.com/about/. [...]