So I thought I’d finally make another update on this blog since I haven’t done so in [insert embarrassing long ago date here]. It’s a new year, and with that I’m planning on good things for my garden.

Since moving to urban Vancouver I haven’t had my little plot of land and I’ve been going rather crazy because of this. I also live next to a rather busy street which has offered up its own group of problems. I’ve decided to stay in my place for at least another year while I go to school, and with this decision I’ve resolved to make my own garden.

See, there actually is a plot of land that comes along with this old house I’ve grown to call home, but since the tenant upstairs has lived here longer than I, he has claimed all of it (and proceeded to take so little care of it that it pains me to see the few lone rudbeckia and geraniums struggling). So I’m taking matters into my own hands. I’m going to phone the landlord and ask if I can dig myself a little garden (which I’m next to positive I’ll get the green light on). I’ll then inform the guy upstairs and tell him that I’m going to be digging a hole in the yard to make my own garden. In the name of neighbourly friendliness I’ll ask him if he has any serious problems with where I plan to put it (since he does do all the raking/cutting of the lawn), but if he tries to say that I can’t dig a hole I’ll point him in the direction of the phone and tell him to take it up with the landlord (and promtly start digging).

So, to put my plan to fruition, I’ll have to do a few things:

1. Get a shovel. A GOOD shovel. No garden is complete without a good shovel by its side.

2. Determine just how clay-like the soil is and buy topsoil/sand/mushroom manure to compensate for it.

Really that’s not that much, a few hours at a greenhouse (including the picking out of plants) will do it. I can’t wait! There’s nothing more fulfilling then starting a garden completely from scratch and seeing it grow strong.