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More garden action from, appropriately, Carroll Gardens…We moved two blocks in mid-May from Carroll Street to Henry Street here in Carroll Gardens. We had a covered garden on Carroll but due to the lack of sun we were limited in growing pursuits.

When we got here there were rose bushes of fairytale proportions. About ten of them were overgrown, thorny and half dead! We removed all but two—any mobile person would have undoubtedly impaled themselves in thorns by just taking a few steps into the garden. There were weeds as tall as I, and my husband sawed down a dead tree that threatened to fall into a neighbor’s yard. We wanted to clear everything out so that we could start over again. In all we had several bushels of wood and brush to get rid of, two bundles of which we still cant get the city to come and pick up (what’s with that?). Several rounds of preparing the soil.

The tree you see is Rose of Sharon. The herbs are edible marigold, two types of mind, lavender (grosso), basil, there is a grapevine that is above us and in the yard that is now raining grapes and causing a strange fermented smell which we don’t mind much but the flies need to go. We have tomatoes and peppers in the containers.

Also here is a hydrangea, a lilac bush, blackberry bush and strawberries which wont happen until next summer. We brought in 30 bags of mulch to help us keep the garden moist but for the most part we do water everyday. We put a bench in and some stepping stones. And we think in the fall we will prepare for more vegetables. In the end we are pretty happy with the outcome – oh I should mention we rent and we spent thousands to get it to this point. Some might find that crazy.