About me: I live about 25 miles west of Boston in a small milltown with my wife and 4 cats. We’re currently busy renovating a 110 year old house. Since we’re doing much of the work ourselves, learning as we go, it’s been a slow process. We hope to reinvest the sweat equity into a much larger piece of land in a few years.
We don’t have much land - 8500 square feet in all which includes the house and an old Chicken Coop doing duty as a one car garage. The wife annointed herself yard czar as soon as we moved in. I’m just a lowly serf in her kingdom, fetching the wheelbarrow and watering cans, etc. But I have managed to sneak small numbers heirloom tomatoes, garlic, chile peppers in among all her perennial beds. The few remaining patches of lawn are rapidly disappearing.
We compost in a big way. Nearly every bit of non-meat, non-dairy food that isn’t eaten goes in the pile. We get lots of leaves in the fall, but it’s still not enough. My wife "steals" the bags our neighbors leave out for pickup to supplement our stash.
Cooking is another favorite pasttime. Mexican is my current favorite, and Italian is always up there too. I’ve been eating my way through two Rick Bayless cookbooks this year.
In the few remaining minutes left each day I spend playing my 3 guitars (a 1963 Gibson J-45, a Dobro Duolian from the mid 1980’s, and a Guild D-40 of unknown origins), torturing traditional Piedmont Blues, Ragtime, and Bluegrass numbers beyond recognition. When I sing sometimes the Cats join in.
My zone is: 5/6
We don’t have much land - 8500 square feet in all which includes the house and an old Chicken Coop doing duty as a one car garage. The wife annointed herself yard czar as soon as we moved in. I’m just a lowly serf in her kingdom, fetching the wheelbarrow and watering cans, etc. But I have managed to sneak small numbers heirloom tomatoes, garlic, chile peppers in among all her perennial beds. The few remaining patches of lawn are rapidly disappearing.
We compost in a big way. Nearly every bit of non-meat, non-dairy food that isn’t eaten goes in the pile. We get lots of leaves in the fall, but it’s still not enough. My wife "steals" the bags our neighbors leave out for pickup to supplement our stash.
Cooking is another favorite pasttime. Mexican is my current favorite, and Italian is always up there too. I’ve been eating my way through two Rick Bayless cookbooks this year.
In the few remaining minutes left each day I spend playing my 3 guitars (a 1963 Gibson J-45, a Dobro Duolian from the mid 1980’s, and a Guild D-40 of unknown origins), torturing traditional Piedmont Blues, Ragtime, and Bluegrass numbers beyond recognition. When I sing sometimes the Cats join in.
My zone is: 5/6
GardenWeb Member: 2002-02-01