Getting things started
Welcome to my garden blog! I have a fairly big backyard garden in Boston, Massachusetts where, our current main crop is... acorns. Hence, The Acorn Garden. As things start blooming, I'll take you on a proper tour of the garden, but right now I want to talk about BULBS. I have a bit of an obsession with bulbs. I'm not sure why, but they just seem a bit more magical than seeds (even if they come from seeds). There's just something mysterious about planting something in fall, something that looks like a potato or an onion, and then even when it's horribly cold outside, it pops a little green nose up. And then grows into something as tall as me in the case of my tree lilies. Last fall, I went crazy with tulips and hyacinths-- so much that I ran out of containers in which to plant them. I potted them all up in pots and then buried them all in one of my raised beds. I threw a tarp on the whole thing (to keep the falling acorns out as well as the squirrels)
