Well, I already took some steps to expand my upcoming garden of 2012. I had a neighbor that had three tractor tires that they put out and so I grabbed them and already filled them with lots of organic matter. Well, then we had a water leak and so my yard is completely torn apart, fortunately the area where I placed the tires are fine, but it was bad. I can’t expand even further because in the spring their gonna have to come back and flatten that whole area because they just kind of piled the dirt up and left. And of course, it is now covered in snow anyway. But, also my neighbor kept letting his dog used my yard as his dogs pop-area even when I asked them several times not too. They’re nice most of the time but they think someone cares about their dog the way they do and we don’t. Its really gross having someone leave dog poop in your yard, even though I don’t use that part of the yard…it still never gave them the right. I’m trying to pick my battles.
I’m hoping with them seeing that I’m using that yard with the expanded garden their they will finally get it in their heads to not just let their dog loose to poop. Even the guy that was tearing up my yard said that he kept stepping in dog poop. That’s horrible. I know that if I do get some rabbits which I’m tolling over…since that’s the only thing legally I could have here…(even though before I was hoping to get some and nothing ever panned out with it)-they would be housed over in the back area as well and so I would need them to keep their dog out. I may try to find out some type of invisible fences or sprays or something to keep him out…but for now, I have a torn up yard in the front with snow, and even my back garden has wood and a downed cable line from my neighbor in it…the same neighbor. I didn’t even know he had pulled down his cable line until he told me. I am hoping I can get my landlord to put a fence in the back as well…I just need a section because Junk people have come in and stolen from me and my other neighbor. They stole all of her metal from her yard and my old reel mower. I’ve had someone else picking through my flower pots. They can just come straight into my yard from off the alley and I don’t like that. So, we’ll see what happens this coming year.
I do know that with the three large tires, I want to grow the cucumbers and squashes that died last year because I planted them way too early for Indiana. Having come from Tennessee to Indiana, I didn’t know what to expect. But, I also hope to grow more to give. I gave away alot of tomatoes, very few peppers-(haha)-and also some collard greens. So, with the cucumbers and squashes I should have enough to give. This year instead of loading down just my neighbors, I’m gonna see about giving to a food bank or something. I kind of did something like that with the collard greens. I had a huge table full and I looked at it and I thought, Oh MY GOODNESS…and so I gave two large bag fulls to a church. That made me feel like I needed to do more of that. So, as much as I can grow, I want to grow to feed the neighborhood and feed us and other’s…That’s my goal this upcoming year.
