I'm preparing myself for the Winter veggie season and by preparing I mean obsess over my Seed Savers book and dream of having a neat, orderly set of plantings (really this time! I mean it!) I keep picturing a little knot garden, but I would substitute boxwood for lettuces or radishes as the delineating boundries and filling the remaining spaces with squares of perky Carrots, Golden Chard and sweet little leaves of Mache, not to mention a bevy of cutting annuals such as red poppies (last photo), Baby Blue Eyes and Collinsia heterophylla.
My favorite method of instant inspiration these days involves sticking a phrase in the Google and clicking on images to see what comes up. Many times I get quite relevant images, such as this one from the Better Homes and Gardens site:
I picture getting two or three of these to grow the diminutive Mache or maybe even some Nasturtium 'Empress of India' to trail down the sides. Can you just imagine all the possibilities?! With a shoe rack of all things!
We're in fall obsessive-compulsive mode around here too at the moment. I have so many things to plant at the moment, that I'm not there's room for them all! I like the shoe rack idea, one way to get those greens up where the bunnies can't gnaw on them, and use that wasted vertical space too!
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