My veggie patch - Part 1

Since I found the amazing Aura-Joon, I've been craving some gardening.

We live in a rented house, but I don't care. I feel like making little vegetable babies and caring for them.

This is what our back garden looks like.  At the very end of the photo is an ugly patch that we never go to.

After much deliberation, I decided on that sunny ugly spot.  There's a door that opens from the garage onto this little forgotten piece of garden, which makes it perfect for access from our kitchen.

The ugly spot

Maybe it is the fact that this is an ugly piece of our garden that made me fall in love with it, I always vote for the underdog.

Last night, I could not contain myself anymore.  I skipped gym and came home.  I took my camera to take pictures so that I can plan, but before I knew it, I was turning ground in my work clothes.

These stones and grassy patches used to be a walkway made from anti-weed fabric with stones on top.  The ugly truth I discovered shortly, is that the grass roots were so entangled inside the fabric that there was no way I could just pull it out.  This called for drastic measures.

I had to lift up the fabric and roll the stones out of the way to get to the entangled roots of the weeds.

It took some serious back breaking motions, but in the end I am really glad that it's done the proper way.  The amazing thing was that the stones rolled away, and the weeds stayed behind. It was actually a really good way of doing this!

 

Grass roots in the fabric
While I was doing this, I thought of digging up that whole place and making it into a garden, but then, I came to my senses.  This is my first attempt at a garden, so I am going to take baby steps.

 Finally, I could lay it down again and push the pebbles over it again.

My bare canvas

My mother's love - she knew I'd get there in the end!

But still, the need to put something in the ground to justify all my efforts could not let me go.  I rummaged through the kitchen drawer remembering that my mother once bought me some seeds.  I thought it was only flowers, but then I found this little packet of Herb Mix.

The Herb Patch

So, in this little boring looking spot, I have now planted little babies.  I can't wait for them to show me their little faces!