Dianne White

It’s that time again - Poetry Stretch – and this week’s challenge was to write an acrostic poem.  Since I’ve been playing around lately with garden poems, my offering this week is about a garden for those who love veggie pizza.   I’ve seen these gardens described in several places and recently, at a workshop on composting, I picked up a lesson on how to model the water cycle by growing a mini-pizza garden in a “to-go” container.

I’ve not planted the life-sized version, or the mini, but one of these days, perhaps I will.  In the meantime, I’ll have to be content with the fruits of someone else’s labors…

Plant a six-foot-wide pizza
In a wheel-sized patch.
Zone off triangled sections:
Zucchini in one, plum tomatoes in
Another.  Add

Peppers, eggplant,
Arugula.  You’ll need spices:
Thyme, basil, oregano.  Even
Calendulas, the color of cheese. Let
Herbs sprout beside onions and chives.  Home grown.  Your own.

PIZZA PATCH

** The pizza garden is a photo from the University of Minnesota’s Children’s Garden.  The pizza is my own homemade/Farmer’s Market version of a recent Bon Appetit recipe. (Asparagus, Fingerling Potato, and Goat Cheese.  YUM!)

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Roots, Shoots, Buckets, & Boots by Sharon Lovejoy.  It’s the perfect resource for people like me, who know barely a thing about gardening!