On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 21:29:58 -0800, (Jan
Flora) wrote:


I'll take some of it too....

Pat (who has a bit less than 1/2 acre to work with)

This may sound like whining, but sometimes I wish I only had a 1/2 acre or an
acre. The yard here is a weedy blank, except for a couple of native spruce trees
and a birch. It's overwhelming to look at a huge yard and decide what
trees to plant
and where; what bushes; how many peonies I can get away with buying before Chris
screams about what they cost [they thrive up here]; and stuff like that,
before I even
*start* building beds and doing naturalized spring bulbs.

I know what you mean: it took me two years of living here
to plan out the 'landscaping' . Two whole years...just to
know where I wanted to put various things. It just didn't
'click' in my head until then. Now it has. Now it's
just a matter of doing it all.

I'm into edible
landscaping,
which is a hoot. (One of my Master Gardening teachers in Calif. was Robt.
Kourick,
who wrote the Edible Landscaping book that didn't sell as well as Rosiland
Creasy's.)

We are also doing edible landscaping. This year, we've
planted:

blueberries - foundation plantings
raspberries
blackberries
gooseberries
rhubarb
jostaberry

Next year, I hope to start some espaliered fruit trees, and
build a 3-tiered strawberry planter.

Plus we're building a hoophouse this year, and the veggie
garden is getting raised beds. If we can get it all done.

I've been instructed to respect the normal bulldozer paths to plow snow in
the winter;
the path to the fuel oil tank behind the house; the path into the [10
acre] horse pasture
next to the Cowboy Cabin, the driveway circle that's big enough to get our
log truck
and belly dump in and out of without backing up [much], etc. *ack!*


We have similar restrictions, they're annoying. But we're
*slowly* getting there, I'm sure you will too!

Pat