Gardens for Meadow to Explore!

My first gardening blog with Meadow of course.

Well, the truth be told – I am an amateur gardener who loves to tinker. I often will confuse my plants by name but I am definitely working on my identification. I have no chance with the scientific names but as a middle school science teacher I will continue to work on it. I thought for my first garden post that I would share with you my dreams and hopefully together we will see them develop. I do lots of experiments so will share them as I go.

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.

– Janet Kilburn Phillips

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The Tower Garden is a hydroponic system that I have been using for years. I bought it from Juice Plus and have used it on and off. With the quarantine of COVID, I started using it more and have had a lot of success. The top holds my herbs like lavender (my favorite), basil, parsley, cilantro, sage and more. The bottom right now has an insane amount of cucumbers, green bean, lettuce, marigolds, and the start of tomatoes. I’m looking around for another one or possible we will build our own. Watch out for the blog just on hydroponics so we can learn together.

I love my Hungarian Bathtub filled with Gerber Daisies.

This container started out in COVID as a potato garden in case we were locked in for forever. For fun, I have transplanted some lavender and green peppers from my tower. The pineapples are just so interesting that I always love to see them go from my kitchen back to the garden. Lastly, you might spy some aloe – so easy to grow and propagates itself.

Recent edition and just in its infancy is a shade garden. I loved the Staghorn fern that was here when we moved in. Working on a sweet walking path where fairies will greet you along the way. Keep your eyes out! Hoping to add a table and chairs for a place to work on my nature journal.

Fennel to milkweed, lavender and much more This garden was my first one on our property – needs some love right now – you might be able to tell that Lego was digging while we were away.

Everywhere that I can find a space for a garden I will try to add some design. We still have some way to go but starting.

I can’t wait to create a large vegetable garden – I can see it here – can you? I am hopeful this fall we will start to build the fence so our friendly dogs don’t use it as a digging pit.

We have 2 more gardens in mind as well … you can see we have lots of planning to do. The chickens have a garden starting to grow and a hopeful wildflower garden as well for my garden who loves flowers.