Specialty Gardening: Garden Shots 3-Let's see your late summer combos!, 1 by JudyinGA

JudyinGA wrote:
Gardengus,
It's a long story but yes, I will start doing beds as soon as it is cool. I have been trying to start a garden for several years but things keep getting in the way (annoying health issues ... like two heart attacks, bypass surgery, breast cancer and more surgery ... all since 2006. I just turned 70 in April.). I will have to go slower than I could then but as long as I don't get too overworked I should be able to get things done.

I started in 2003, turning my little tract house into a country cottage and now I need the cottage garden to make it complete. My grandiose plans of years ago have been changed out of necessity but I can still have some beds, although they will be fewer and smaller.

Winter here is quite mild, although somewhat rainy, but preparing beds is something you can do almost year round. Summers are hideous with the temperature and humidity running about the same ... in the 90s. I just can't take that heat. That's why everything is on the deck. I have many of the ingredients ... now I have to make the cake :-) Finding these forums has been a Godsend. I not only have help and new friends, I have someone to share my garden triumphs with (and someone to lament with me when things go wrong).

To show you where I am in my progress, here is the house right after I purchased it in 1988 ...