Triangle Area Real Estate News & Information

It's been an absolutely crazy year so far in terms of real estate here in the Durham, Chapel Hill/Carrboro and surrounding areas. In fact I started this on July 1 and here I am on the July 19 hoping I can get this finished and posted before heading out on afternoon appointments. After a quick update on our home gardening efforts.

If you read my Blog occasionally you already know that my wife and I love gardening and have been actively growing much of our own organic produce for the past couple of years in raised beds in our front yard which I've taken to referring to as Front Yard Farms. Here's a picture of what we harvested yesterday and honestly we gather up about this much every couple of days. Through careful staggering of plantings and the good fortune of beautiful weather year round we’re able to produce well over half of the vegetables we eat and that's quite a few. If you're not familiar with gardening and wonder how big a garden you might need, we grow all of this in just over 100 square feet of raised beds.

I actually hate letting vegetables get as large as the one zucchini pictured, but every so often one seems to hide itself out of sight until “Voila; a 4 lb Zucchini” I prefer my vegetables to be picked while their a little younger and in my mind more tender, but I'll cut this one in half, scoop out the seedy center and stuff and bake it; rather than compost it. Note the “nose” on the tomato on the far right, if it looks familiar it came by it honestly, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree ;-). Now on to the numbers.