Friday, June 20, 2008

Behold, A Garden

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night-time planting with headlamps makes for dramatic shots!

it all started with a random conversation over lunch with my blogging neighbor, emily.  i can’t remember exactly how it went, but probably something like this:

me: so i’m thinking of starting a garden
emily: really?  you’re so awesome!
me: gee whiz, thanks… hyuck hyuck… shucks *blush*
emily: i want to start a garden too, but our yard doesn’t have space.  can i come over and garden too?
me: i know, let’s make it a community garden in our backyard between your house and my house!  then you girls can come over whenever you want and work on the garden and eat the yummy veggies.
emily: and we can bring over our mint plants and grow green peppers, and onions, and broccoli, and… and… and.. and..
me: yeah yeah yeah!

and now, around 2 months later, we have this:

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you can’t really see it, but seedlings are sprouting!

except for lines 2 and 3, this conversation was the inspiration for us to dig up a chunk of my backyard lawn to grow a vegetable garden.  we didn’t do it by ourselves though; we got lots of help from friends and professors: our landlord, who used to work for calvin’s service learning center, gave us the ok to dig up her lawn; professor dave warners, my bio 111 teacher and a botanist, helped us plan our garden; professor warner’s colleague, professor rich nyhof, lent us his advice and rototiller, and he also gave us his used garden fence to keep out rabbits from eating our veggies; my friend, bio major, and housemate david cutter provided advice and manual labor; and emily and liz from the girls house helped dig lots of lawn, even during finals week.  oh, and i haven’t mentioned our great neighbors who’ve supplied us with extra shovels when friends like emily and liz come over to dig.

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Posted by Nehe555 on 06/20 at 01:59 PM
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