This will be the fourth garden I’ll leave before the harvest. The first two times my heart was utterly broken. I ‘had’ lots of land, and then just before a rich harvest my life would turn upside down and I left. The third garden I started out of an inner need to garden, I didn’t care anymore who would eat what I planted and really started to understand that land is not to be owned, but cared for.
Currently I’m renting a small house without garden and went to help friends in their gardens for a while, but it’s not the same as planting and caring for your plants right where you live. I found out that behind my house is a tiny, neglected, rubble-filled backyard, and today I turned two piles of rubble into two raised beds.
Not really a balcony, but small scale zero budget gardening. I felt so hopeless this morning with all the shit going on in the world, and I feel so much better now. If I leave here before harvest my friends hopefully will come and eat everything!
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Holy moly it looks awesome! I hope it brings you joy.
How’s the garden going? What did you plant in it?
It struggled from very low light conditions - if I had stayed longer in the place I’d have researched plants who favor shade. Ultimately there was some dill, some parsley, some coriander. Two tomatoes. One strawberry. Still - I regret nothing and would do it again. My current garden is on soil and contains several carrots, some turnips, and fava beans. Lots more stuff seeded. I supplement with foraging - it’s fake asparagus time <3
