Garden Savvy

This dash of warm Ohio weather has sent me into a gardening frenzy. I can't wait for that first week of May to be able to plant and get everything up and running. Since that is still a few weeks away I have begun the planning phase. I was able to create a virtual diagram of my teensy backyard via Smallblueprinter.com

Ive decided to tackle this tiny blah backyard and make it functional for entertaining/ gardening. Let me explain my blueprint a little more. The dark gray is symbolic of the garage. The silver circle in the bottom center is our AC unit. There are already small flower beds along the house (bottom of the picture). The wooden chairs are symbolic of a pallet couch. The square in front of them is our fire pit. The 2 garden beds in front of the garage will be raised cinder block gardens. I plan to add poles on all 3 points of the pallet corner couch in order to accommodate string lights that will be strung behind the couch on both sides. 

Here are a few of my inspirations via Pinterest:

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Cinder block garden. I plan to spray paint the cinderblocks so they are not so plain/modern:

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Cinder block strawberries:

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Some of the things I am planning to plant are:

I can't wait to get started! Come on warm weather!