Pacific Northwest Gardening: Mauryhill tour #2, 1 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
Thanks everyone for your feedback and appreciation. It is actually good for me to step back and take pictures. When I'm in there weeding for the umpteenth time it is hard to see progress.

Sally there are times I wish my place were smaller. An acre and a half is a lot to take care of. It started out as fairly level pasture with several fruit trees and a couple of old pickers' sheds, including a six-seater outhouse from when this was a currant farm. I have tried to give some shape to the garden around the house so it doesn't look so plunked down in the middle of a field.

Yep, Steve, I have sun, and lots of it. And Gwen, we do make a fair number of pies, and pumpkin soup with ginger. This overwhelming number of pumpkins was kind of accident though. Last year I didn't have as many as I wanted (enough to give out to kids in my class for Halloween in addition to making my own pies) so this year I planted 2 vines and then 3 more volunteered out of the compost heap. Add to that a very good squash year. I have sold some to a local health food grocery, given away bunches, and now I'm doing a fund raiser for the school activities fund (part of which will buy a load of compost for the school garden) and had the kids decorate pumpkin pie recipes and tie them to the stems.

Here is a current photo of the patio garden from the same location I took that picture 7 years ago.