Your Complete Home - Outside in the Garden

Clearly,

I have a green thumb.

And, I might garden some.

As I spend a lot of time outside,

I find that more than home DIY, I LOVE to garden.

Outside.

Unfortunately, I live in the PNW.

Though I did just buy this book

Backyard Bounty

which promises to have me gardening year round

my reality so far,

is that I only grow part of the year.

So that non-growing season is when I DIY.

All said, 

here is what takes up most of my time 

nowadays

avoid buying any more petunias

easier said than done

LOVE this Hollyhock Cooks Yeast Dressing
fried green tomatoes

and fresh greens and edible flowers from my yard

 daily fresh lettuce from the yard

potato towers sprouting

sedum is my FAVORITE

hosta is a close second 

that bleeding heart took me TWO YEARS to grow

Also

realizing how EASY

it is to grow peonies

 and I hoard dirt. 

All kinds of dirt.

those strawberries are going wild.

Threw some mint in with them

smoothies will be good this year!

I was not an iris fan.

Then I grew these orchid looking ones...

And also

 allium are another one of my faves.

Next year, I'm going to grow GIANT ones.

Like the ones at the Oakland Hilton.

Just saying.

 I'm STILL pulling up potato plants from last year on the other side of the lawn.

These towers better keep them contained.

Those artichokes...year 3 and they are FINALLY growing.

Sunchokes which are ALSO invasive.  

Which I actually love

because that is less space to fill

in some hard to grow spaces

I got over the "Petunias are expensive" thing.

I will always buy them end of season from here out

but MAN are they gorgeous.

You can check out my garden antics

on my instagram stream

(@imanisasa)

not on instagram?

Check it out online

http://followgram.me/imanisasa

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