So a few days ago I got my garden all nice and prepared for the bounty of plants that I’ll be planting this year.

The goal: An Urban Oasis.

I live in a pretty busy part of town, it’s a residential area but it’s right by a main street so I’m always fighting jerks walking through my garden and exhaust settling on my veggies and herbs.

This year I decided to get a cheap little fence and create a space that would be easily definable as a garden, hopefully cutting down people walking through it (as to why people are tromping through my lawn, that’s something else all together, I suspect it’s the next door neighbours).

Garden

The fence has sweet peas and black eyed susans planted all around it, with a row of calendula on the front fence. It’s all about defining the space.

I am pleased as well that a lot of my plants made it through the crazy cold snap we had here in February. Even my osteospermum, which is an annual, pulled through.

Osteospermum aka African Daisy

I turned all the dirt, planted the few seeds I had, and all that’s left is to get myself some seaweed fertilizer (I can’t stand the smell of fish, and I don’t need the neighbourhood cats and racoons being even more attracted to the space) and my little starter plants and I’ll be set to go for the year.