For those who love gardening, more is … more fun, more joy, more play, and yes more food for all manner of beings above and below the ground. Each season is an experiment in itself; then there are the actual experiments of particular new plants, or planting things together, or being creative with trellising, or knowing when something just has to be pulled.

This season here in Jaroso includes all of the above plus

• an electric wheelchair for mobility because MS has entered another stage
• and six new beds along the driveway near the house (for the same reason).

Handwriting was on the wall last autumn that I would not be able to walk to the back garden anymore. The walker had become insufficient. So, last Fall we put together the frames for these beds with access by a walker or wheelchair in mind. This is the row of the new beds.

Between each is access. I can reach all but the deep middle of any one. This season is observing: the amount of sunlight and type of sunlight (morning, midday, etc.) each gets; therefore, what to plant where; and the drainage of the beds. So far, it all gets a high B+, which might go up as vegetable plants actually fruit. Flowers are sprinkled through every bed. Most of them need another two weeks or so to blossom.

So, with joy, here are many photos. The wood is local free wood from Amalio and a saw mill. Nothing is straight. It is perfect! You can almost see my little car on the right in the upper photo. My house is on the other side of the car. The electric wheelchair is needed even that close.

Bed 1: potatoes, tomatoes, bush beans. zinnias, too.

Bed 2: dwarf sweet corn, parsley, cosmos

Between 2 and 3: an old rack of some sort (thrift store) with climbing tomatoes on either side being trained to climb, climbing green beans; underneath is chard, thai basil, and broccoli that prefers making delicious leaves rather than broccoli. And on top, nasturtiums and purple bush beans.

Bed 3: more dwarf sweet corn. It’s Amish and was delicious last year. Kale, bush snap peas, marigold babies; oh, and two Kabocha squash among the corn (experiment for close quarters)

Bed 4: Blue Lake green pole beans just starting to climb, morning glories – strings to train it to the wood fence, a tomato, a collard, and two golden zucchinis (struggling a bit). Milkweed along the fence.

Bed 5: tomatoes, peas, chamomile, cabbage

Bed 6: tomatoes, calite (native edible), cosmos, chamomile

There are hollyhocks, native milkweed and native sunflowers everywhere! Hollyhocks and milkweed just starting to flower. Monarch butterflies (2) showed up two days ago.

From last year’s seeds: seven varieties of tomatoes (all heirloom), all the beans in these beds, all the variety of cosmos and marigold. And the potatoes were left over kitchen organic ones.

Such fun! Gardening and meditation: who needs more? Great gratitude and wishing all beings have their needs met.