This is a photo journal of my small home vegetable garden. Skippy thinks it's his garden, but I've been gardening here for 20 years. We're located near Boston, in eastern Massachusetts, USA (USDA zone 6a). My home garden space is quite small (250 sq ft) and very shady. My challenge is to squeeze in and extend the season as much as I can. This spring, I got a sunny community garden plot assignment! An extra 350 sq ft! I wonder what great veggies I can grow this year?
Violets are a really prolific weed in my yard. I hate to pull them up, so I leave many to grow as they please. They make a good ground cover and have beautiful blossoms. Just this week they have started to bloom.
posted by kathy at 5/01/2007 10:08:00 PM
Skippy is a very friendly Portuguese water dog. I'm just the gardener who hangs out with him.
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Viola odorata I presume. Weed? What are you calling a weed? :-)
We have them in white and purple, growing profusely in the lawn. Where else?
I mark out the patches in February and no mower is allowed near them until they are over.
It's a battle every year as you may imagine. I suppose the old definition of a weed: 'a plant growing in the wrong place', still holds good today. But then...I even like dandelions, which is maybe a step too far.
May 03, 2007 9:28 AM
I also LOVE all my violets. I call them a weed because they volunteer all over the place. Just today I collected many from the backs of my borders and moved them to the edges along the front. I like a nice row of them.
I have many purples, a few whites, and even a yellow one or two. I am very fond of many weeds. (I hope I am not offending them to call them this....)
Since I don't really know the definition of a "weed", I just looked at Wikipedia. At the top is a photo of a lovely violet, then a definition with the words "nuisance", "aggressive" and "unwanted". Maybe I should change my terminology...
(I also like dandelions too. I often leave a patch of two of them here and there. Next to the tansy and bugleweed.)
May 03, 2007 3:39 PM
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