Gardening in an urban environment (V-2025)

We have around 500 square feet of deck, trex decking with a solid surround and angled cap. During the lock-down we decided to start our urban gardening.

We moved here with over 30 plants.  Getting them loaded into the U-Haul truck, then unloaded here and moved to our deck was no small project. Slowly over the past 12+ years, some plants made their end-of-life transition.  I mourned the loss of each one. There were 3 bushes, numerous perennials and a limited number of annuals, which for some reason came back year after year when we lived in downtown Seattle (Belltown). One I mourned was a Rosemary bush that had thrived in downtown Seattle but found Burien just too harsh to live with.

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The Urban Gardener (V-2021)

Covid-19 caused us to tuck into our home and not really go out at all.  While Hubby had an outpatient surgery scheduled for January 2021, that was the only risk we had to take since lockdown.

In 2020, for Mother’s Day, Hubby insisted I should not cook.  We went into “Old Town” to a known restaurant (eaten there a number of times pre-Covid) and ordered a “to-go” Chicken Caesar salad.  Not saying the restaurant is no longer a favorite, however the salad was seriously lacking in quality, taste and pretty much anything else you can think of (wilted, tasteless and unappealing visually). Continue reading “The Urban Gardener (V-2021)”