Home Ownership Bonus: Vegetable Gardens
I could pop open a can of peaches any time - day or night - and devour every last bite of the succulent fruit. There’s only one thing better than canned peaches and that’s fresh peaches. An agent brought in a bag of newly harvested peaches this afternoon and I now blame him for my sticky keyboard.
Although this site is all about real estate: buying, selling, decorating, loans, inspections, market news, etc., we sometimes need to be reminded that for the most part real estate is about HOME. It is a buyers’ market, but the buyer is looking to be home. The seller is marketing their home.
That roof over our head is the place we raise our children, play with our pets, invite family and friends over to make memories. One of my best memories from childhood was sneaking into my Mom’s garden as a kid to eat vegetables right off the vine. I was forbidden to eat the tomatoes because they were a very important canning ingredient to get through the winter. With six kids on a military salary, every tomato counted. So I would tiptoe to the side of the garden where the green peppers were and munch on them. I avoided the corn and green beans because of worms. Geeyuck.
Right now, gardens are beginning to thrive for all those green thumbs who have their own gardens this year. And gardeners are a proud bunch who like to show pictures!
This is an urban garden by Cooking in Cleveland. Although she doesn’t live in a house, she has managed to have a garden on the roof of her apartment and it looks wonderful!
Top Veg shows how to put out runner/stick bean plants.
The fava beans are almost ripe in Skippy’s Vegetable Garden.
Amy at the MotherLoad already has a tomato!
I feel like digging in some dirt, getting it under my nails, running water. But I may wait for my neighbor around the corner to set up their table of free vegetables when they have too many. These are the joys of home ownership. And the joys of a good neighbor!
