Now back to the garden... the one in the back....


 Looking southeast, this is how it looked in the early Spring of that first year before any renovations to the house.

The digging began.  This mound of earth came from the dug
foundation at the back of the house to the right of this photo.

This is how it looked after the boys played with the rocks one day when I was away for a few hours.  This mid section will make a nice vegetable garden as it will be closest to the kitchen door and gets lots of sun.

The deck will be at the bottom right of this photo, just off the kitchen.  Some of these rocks came from the hole they dug for the foundation; some of them came from the digger-man’s quarry.  I will never forget the laughing and joking among the ‘boys‘  while playing with and moving the rocks, one by one.

They had way too much fun.




We bought blueberry bushes and two apple trees for the garden.  The apples are Honey Crisp (our favourite) and its pollinator, Royal Gala.  They would be planted at the end of the veggie bed ; one on either side of the ‘river bed’.

There is room in the small space above the Veggie bed for lilies - I think.  I wanted a hedge of roses, but it seems the snow will be plowed or pushed back off the drive onto this bed.  Will the roses survive? Years ago, a city nursery had its greenhouses on a busy street and a rose hedge  in front.  They took all the salt and winter debris with a toughness that defies logic.  So, maybe it might work for me.

I did  buy 4 small roses called “OSO easy” -Peachy Cream-- hardy to zone 3 - so maybe I shall give it a shot.  Poor things were on sale for $4 each, crying for me to take them home. Orphans, they were… the end of the season.

… now where should they go?