Well, seein' as the P-Vine is having here mastectomy a week from tomorrow and we haven't gotten the bank to sign off on the "short sale" of the NC property which will more than likely come next week we are going to NC tomorrow and measure rooms and try to figure out where the veggie garden will have to go... To the rear of then house is old growth forest and that is on the westward side of the property so areas around the house won't get much sun in the afternoon... The east side is the pond... The only place that get's good sun that is on our property is fenced in by a neighbor and we are told that their is a "handshake agreement" that the neighbor uses that piece for his horses in exchange a piece the neighbor owns that our driveway is on...
That leaves only the area between the driveway and the pond that will get good sun but there are smaller trees (maybe flowering cherry) every 30 feet along the pond...
I've kinda tried to get the P-Vine to see that we might just have to till up several plots between those trees and rather than having one big veggie garden we may end up with 6 (or so) smaller plots (maybe 8 feet by 15-20 feet)... She isn't there yet but I think that she'll arrive at the same conclusion once reality sets in...
No matter, this year it looks like our veggie gardens will be containerized and movable...
I was kinda thinkin' of buying an old truck when we get down there... You know, something that isn't exactly road worthy that go cheap at farm auctions... Maybe a flatbed with side pockets and a 14 foot bed and filling the back with dirt and planting veggies in it and then moving it around to catch the best sun...