A work in progress by Elise Weatherby

Welcome to my little city food garden. It’s a work in progress. I started the garden to teach my son about food and quickly realized I was the one that needed to do the learning.  We live on a smallish city lot complete with a super busy intersection, bus stop, high school and gas station just beyond our property line.  This is an urban food garden in every sense. I am not a full time gardener, I am just a regular person trying to grow some food, self sufficiency in my wildest dreams! I work as a local real estate agent, I am a mother of one little big boy and as a husband and wife team we are renovating our 99 year old home literally from the ground up(but that is a story fit for another blog entirely). Needless to say I don’t have a ton of spare time on my hands.  During the growing season I probably spend about an hour each day enjoying, I mean working in the food garden, pulling weeds, planting seeds. the “work” does not include drinking coffee proudly admiring my ripening produce, harvesting, visiting gardening centres, or spending hours surfing the internet reading all my favorite gardening blogs. The garden seems to always be changing partly because I keep changing my mind about the layout, but also because gardens naturally change over time, plants get eaten, plants die when I forget to water them, plants get too big and I have to move them, plants self seed and all of a sudden I have an arugula “bed” in the midst of my squash. My garden is not always perfectly weeded and manicured with neat path ways and defined beds, but for me it’s always a place of lovely amazement.