The Black Thumb

[dadadadio]

Back in Rhode Island I had a nice vegetable garden in a green backyard shaded by big old trees. We got the perfect amount of sun for a garden. The soil was not great. At some point in colonial history the land was a chicken farm. They used fill to level the terrain. When I turned soil I found many apothecary bottles and relics from a century past.

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[openscarf]

I feel for you. It's what humans do and sometimes we can't. I'm struggling to find a place for my plants. They were evicted from the fire escape. I was in a funk for days. So, it's not your thumb that's black though, it's that ferocious sun.

Can you build a shade structure for the area and grow something hardier? You can grow your herbs inside, which is nice. What & how do the other desert dwellers grow?

Aren't some cacti edible? ;-)

[dadadadio]

I think most people have partial shade for their garden and they plant immediately after the last frost, if we get frost. I'm not planting early enough and until this year lacked the shade. Raised gardens are the norm here because the soil is awful.

Every cat in the hood was hanging in my yard, swatting flies

[ogrevi]

I admit I'd like to see that.