March 18, 2009

Stevenson Alley, March 18, 2009

This is our back stoop. It gets mostly blocked sunlight courtesy of the 9th Circuit Federal Court. Last year we grew lots of peas & a great passion flower vine. However, vandals ripped out all our vines and they have taken all winter to regain life.

This year we have added more planters & all kinds of new plants. A herb planter with oregeno, parsley, basil, cilantro & chives for the kitchen is lowest to the ground. The hanging planters have peas and radishes in them. The passion flower vine container now has some jasmine and pole beans emerging as well to take over the back gate.

Up top we have mostly flowers. Daisies, wave petunias, nasturtium and rosemary. There are some iris bulbs that may come up this year as well. This planter will have pole beans in it in hopes of growing above the heads sewing shop ladies who love to eat my peas. I have a ladder so I can reach them. We also have some orange mint that grows under the dryer vent. You can't kill mint so I let it get abused by the non-stop dryer lint air.


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