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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 10:34:03 am

We are a few weeks away from our garden advice story by Sue Goetz, of The Creative Gardener in Gig Harbor. She'll offer advice to readers who have sent in photos of their garden disasters.

This photo comes from Carl and Judy in Graham. Their blah backyard is a perfect blank canvas, isn't it?

The question: What would you do?

Me? I'd get rid of some of that lawn and replace with garden beds of varying heights and widths and sculpt some garden pathways. But that's just me.

Here are what Carl and Judy have to say:

We have this very large back yard that we are not sure what to do with. We are hoping to remove the deck and rebuild larger or to go with a patio, maybe pavers or cement. Please help because we have no clue as to where to start.
Thank you so much Carl & Judy, Graham, Wa.

Categories: Dilemmas, Fix my yard! 2 comments