{"id":794,"date":"2011-07-31T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2011-09-22T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:12:39","slug":"a-year-of-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/a-year-of-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"A YEAR OF GARDENING"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Meyer<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s been a year since we started our first little 1x.8m veggie garden bed, we have slowly taken over every available space like weeds. No bare patch of soil is safe in our garden!<\/p>\n

Our first transition into winter was a bit clunky, and I’m determined to have the garden bursting with produce all year round, the huge paved area is begging to be used. Doing our final design for our PDC has inspired us and we’re going to see if the landlord will let us completely make over the garden. Fingers crossed.
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