Pizza Patch

Dianne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:05:01 +0000

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!

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Pizza Patch