July 1st, 2008 - Is this any different than a lawn service?
Eric sent me a short story about a new company in San Francisco that will maintain an organic garden in your yard. It makes it sound unique, but it sounds a lot like having a gardener or lawn service, except that it’s organic. The one difference is that you can have them grow more than you’d eat and you become part of a CSA (except you still have to pay for the CSA, albeit at a discount). The big picture is a distributed urban organic farm.
I’m a bit ambivalent…until I remembered that I’d love someone to help in my garden. I’m quite afraid that my sciatica will prevent me from doing as much as I’d like. Or I just spend my summers in pain, which isn’t much fun (like this summer and last). I ADORE having a garden right outside my door. I wonder what it would cost to have someone else do most of the work…. and would I love it as much?
July 7th, 2008 at 10:16 am EDT
I wonder. I like doing my own things int he garden, that is a big part of the satisfaction isn’t it? :)
Have you looked into raised beds? Not just raised dirt but literally building structures that would be waist height? There are some ideas about that in the Square Foot Gardening book.