Last night our neighbor Q came over with some good news (his name isn’t really Q; it’s shorthand for his last name, which is Cusick. Get it?). He and his girlfriend Shannon are our backyard neighbors. There’s another neighbor whose yard is adjacent to both of ours, and she’s almost never, ever out in her yard. So a couple weeks ago we hatched a plan to ask our neighbor if we could use part of her yard for a vegetable garden. Q’s good tidings last night were that he’d run into Susan (the neighbor), and she said we could use her yard! Excellent! If I’m not off in Elmhurst buying a car this Saturday, I’ll be weeding and digging bulbs in preparation for the One Call people to come and mark the area for cables on Monday. After that, we’ll do some tilling and composting to prepare our plot for growing.
I’m still not exactly sure what we’ll grow. I’d like tomato, for sure. And onions. And green peppers (maybe some hot peppers, too). Leah and my mom think beans would be a neat thing for Ava to see grow, and I’m beginning to agree. We won’t need to plant a ton of stuff, since we’ve signed up for a CSA share with my mom and some other neighbors that’ll give us lots and lots of veggies over the course of the summer.
Hmm…I think I even saw some old tomato cages over in my mom’s garage…. Fresh tomatoes! I can’t wait!