My Garden: Growing Locally and Sustainably in Chicago
A reader replaces a lawn with an edible front yard and plants her backyard with fragrant herbs that she and her husband use to make their own tea.
January 31, 2011
06:35pm
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Photo by: Cathleen Jensen
Comments (2)
from Mark Corbin on 12.26.11 at 10:04pm
Nice touches.
from Roadman on 02.01.11 at 06:19pm
Great Ideas for our Indiana residence.
The couple—Cathleen is an occupational therapist and Eric is a securities investor—designed and implemented their garden themselves. With thoughtful planning, they spend relatively little time maintaining it: "We put in 5 to 15 hours a week. Aside from the initial planting, we pretty much just putter a little each night in the summer. We have soaker hoses that we use when we need to, but for the last couple summers, the garden required very little watering. As you can see, we just have a tiny amount of grass, so it only takes about 10 minutes with a push mower to cut it once a week."