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My FUN Garden, 2/2020+ by Ronald Horii
Sometime in early February 2020, before the pandemic shutdown, I started my FUN Garden. I'm not a gardener. I don't grow things. I built a container garden for my wife several years ago. She used it to grow vegetables. Lately, she's been too busy to garden, so the garden boxes have mainly been growing weeds. I recently joined the California Native Plant Society, so I thought I'd try growing some native plants. I bought a packet of native wildflower seeds, mostly annuals. I started sprinkling the packet over one of the garden beds. Before I could finish the whole bed, the packet was empty. Then I read the back of the packet. It says it covers 362 sq. ft. The bed is 8'X4' or 32 sq. ft., so I spread the seeds 11X denser than recommended, even more so, since I didn't cover it evenly. I raked it a bit to try to even out the seeds. I was thinking about thinning out the plants, but then I decided to just leave them, as an experiment to see what would happen. Here are pictures of the garden, starting in February 2020 when the plants started to germinate, into 2021, when the second generation of seeds are starting to sprout. I may add more pictures later as the flowers start to bloom again. I call this my FUN Garden, not just because I'm doing it for fun, but because it stands for Fouled-Up Native Garden (the polite version).
Sometime in early February 2020, before the pandemic shutdown, I started my FUN Garden. I'm not a gardener. I don't grow things. I built a container garden for my wife several years ago. She used it to grow vegetables. Lately, she's been too busy to garden, so the garden boxes have mainly been growing weeds. I recently joined the California Native Plant Society, so I thought I'd try growing some native plants. I bought a packet of native wildflower seeds, mostly annuals. I started sprinkling the packet over one of the garden beds. Before I could finish the whole bed, the packet was empty. Then I read the back of the packet. It says it covers 362 sq. ft. The bed is 8'X4' or 32 sq. ft., so I spread the seeds 11X denser than recommended, even more so, since I didn't cover it evenly. I raked it a bit to try to even out the seeds. I was thinking about thinning out the plants, but then I decided to just leave them, as an experiment to see what would happen. Here are pictures of the garden, starting in February 2020 when the plants started to germinate, into 2021, when the second generation of seeds are starting to sprout. I may add more pictures later as the flowers start to bloom again. I call this my FUN Garden, not just because I'm doing it for fun, but because it stands for Fouled-Up Native Garden (the polite version).
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