100 Square Feet!

This coming weekend, I plan on having a couple of marathon garden planning sessions with devas galore. My garden charts are almost complete (I’ll post images next week, once the planning is finished), and it looks like my “Lindisfarne Valley Garden” will have 100 square feet of veggies, herbs and flowers (and that’s in addition to the various and sundry side beds with hosta, day lilies, sedum, rhodies, and more). Nature has asked me to use the Square Foot Gardening method as the baseline approach for the newest plantings in my garden, and there are so far a collection of 3′ x 3′, 4′ x 4′, and 3′ x 4′ raised beds scattered throughout the garden chart — yielding 100 one-foot-square “boxes” in which to plant. It’s exciting…and, I’ll be honest, a little daunting! I’ve managed to pull myself out of the anxiety mode that invites me to come in, stay a while, and freak out. This weekend, I’ll calmly and happily work with my nature-partner to select and position on the chart the 40-or-so plants that will bring this garden into energetic balance. Stay tuned…this chart promises to be a wild one.