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To my way of thinking, vegetables should stay in the vegetable garden, and flowers in the flower garden.  I guess it's my personality type, or something.  I'm also partial to planting things in rows, and not with other things.  For example, I understand that planting squash in a corn patch makes sense, but it violates some rule in my head. My wife is more adventurous in that sort of thing.  She has encouraged me to expand my mind a little, and so last year I planted some vegetables in the flower garden.  And, as it turned out, I kind-of liked it. If you're thinking of doing such a thing, I'll tell you that the multi-colored Swiss chard looked really nice, and, due to a long fall, we were still picking it in December.  I'm told that the roots can be eaten, and that it can be left in the ground for next year, but I pulled it. Carrots have beautiful green tops, and since I'm very bad at thinning them out, the oval shaped bed with carrots looked lush and green. We h

With so many things having been banned from Facebook and YouTube lately, there is now even more room for interesting videos to enjoy that might pertain to gardening. There are two such videos that intrigue me.  Maybe you’ve seen one or both.  They involve using a few simple tools to make incredible things in one’s backyard. The first involves digging a large, rectangular hole and, by very clever planning, digging another rectangular hole within it, making a swimming pool and deck.  It’s amazing!  The video is done as a time-lapse movie, so many days are compressed into a few minutes.  The guy doing it has more energy than any five people I know.  He even carries water from a nearby stream to fill the pool.  The second video highlights a subterranean greenhouse.  It starts the same way, by digging a large rectangular hole.  Then some of the soil that was taken out is put back in, five feet or so below the terrain above.  Poles are put across the top of the rectangle, and plastic s