Victory WILL BE Ours

This is our lower garden. Yes, our yard in DC is so large that we have an upper garden-- where most of the planting is done; the main garden, where we fight off the crab grass and play a very strangely laid out course of Croquet; and the lower garden, where nothing much happens except complaints when we have to mow that little bit of grass.

We have roses and tiger lilies on one side. The other side: the herb garden, the rhubarb, and the golden raspberry bush. In between, clover.

And so we have begun the process of starting a(nother) Victory Garden. We spent the weekend digging up the grass and putting compost and ash down on the space. We have now more than doubled our planting area. We will add more more top soil next weekend and then rototill it. We'll lay out beds and walkways once we start planting--which should be in another month.

We figure that it has only been asked to produce grass and clover for over 40 years and so we should get some good crops.