Sunset's Victory Garden

Last

April

John and I

(and Toulouse)

attended

the

"ground breaking ceremony"

for the

Sunset

Victory Garden

at Santa Margarita Ranch.

The

garden

was to

be

organic,

using

compost

and

sustainable

gardening

techniques.

I was intrigued

to see

the outcome

of

this

one

acre

garden

fast forward

October 2, 2010

The

entrance

to the Victory Garden

Hi John!

I

am

in AWE!

The

garden

is

absolutely

magnificent!

There is a scheme,

well, duh!

I guess every

good

garden has a SCHEME

There

are small plots of herbs

here and there

Gorgeous

olive trees

surround the garden

And

exquisite

veggies,

integrated with

flowers

are everywhere!

Thai Chiles

Bok Choy

amazingly beautiful

Swiss Chard

hundreds of

tomatoes,

peppers,

cucumbers

melons and pumpkins

beans,

eggplants

peas

onions

garlic and leeks

recycled wine corks

used

kinda like

bark

for weed maintenance

and to

keep the ground moist

(great idea, I am saving our corks!)

I wanted

to

do a "Peter Rabbit"

in

all the

lettuces

and kale

parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, basil, savory, oregano

so fragrant

The gardeners

were

on duty

seven days a week

to insure

that this

would be

the garden

among all

gardens.

IT

WAS!