I'm adding again. I took last spring off and tried to sort things out and get some weeds under control but was back to my old ways last fall! A couple expansions, one or two new beds, and I think I can finally spare a little room for veggies now.... assuming I can get the out of control campanula reigned in.

On the flip side I did eliminate a bed last spring. It was a pimple of dirt in the center of the front yard. I removed the dirt pile (found the stump it was covering) and seeded out grass. I think in my years of gardening i can count on one hand the number of times more interesting plants were removed in favor of grass.

Learn to collect your own seed. It's not hard and doesn't require any expensive equipment.
Annuals, including vegetables, are a really easy way to learn. Then you can save your seed money for the truly exotic.
We add more beds every year. This one will be no exception. When I get too old or bored to maintain them, I intend to start mass planting shrubs.

I'm staying the same size but moving things around. The blueberries didn't work out because the rabbits kept eating them, so I'm moving the tomatoes there. The spot the tomatoes were in is becoming a flower garden. So I get to plant a whole new garden without making any new beds. Oh, and the side veggie area is getting strawberries and I'll just buy more veggies at the farmers market. The farmers markets here are really good so I find I don't need to grow as much myself especially things like lettuce that are so cheap to buy but take up a decent amount of space.

i am baffled by this post....

how does one subtract from a garden????

blasphemy .. lol ...

ken

ps: even if you remove a bed.. arent you planting grass.. which just a flat bed??? ... unless i suppose you cede a part of your land to a neighbor ... then i suppose you are subtracting from your garden ...

I guess you could say I'm adding--or maybe just creating new "beds" where there were none in my woods garden. Lots of new hostas to plant, some new perennials, in my continuing quest to eliminate every bit of Japanese honeysuckle and euonymous and replace them with hostas, ferns. wildflowers and native shrubs. Actually mostly it isn't a matter of creating beds, more that I'm digging nice big holes, putting in compost and planting things among the trees.

We have to move this year so I'm shutting down my 2 grow gardens first by selling on craigslist and then moving the showy beds after things bloom or when the time is right...- my gardens will be moved by fall- All of them sigh... or I lose them.... heavy sigh

Too early to tell if I will be adding. I have to wait to see what all made it through our nasty winter in my 11 beds. If everything in those beds shows up, then a new bed will likely be in the works to accommodate the latest 'can't live without' beauties. As Ken says,"subtract from a garden?? blasphamy!"

I am removing two beds and shortening one bed. When we built our deck this past fall we had to find the survey markers and found that some of my beds were a few feet into our neighbor's yard.

Next time I buy property I will insist on finding the survey markers rather than accepting the sellers' statement of where the boundaries lie.

Most of the plants were removed last fall. Will remove the others and seed to grass so the new (only been here ten years) neighbors can add a fence for their dog.

One bed was a holding bed which is not going to be replaced and another was for iris which have been incorporated into other beds. I added two new beds last summer and plants that don't find a place in them will be given away or sold.

I added last year and am still filling the new space. no such thing as eliminating beds at my house :)

I'm expecting construction so I am trying hard to do more clean up and planning than planting. But I will have to move some ferns and hostas to keep them.

The veggie beds self-destructed (termites). But I did trial some things last year- salvia blue hill did much better than veronica royal candles, and daylily apricot sparkles was excellent, but just not as lovely as Sunday Gloves. And daisies still hate clay... surprise. So I may work on my driveway garden, remove a small evergreen, remove some grass, start a gravel path that improves drainage, maybe get a central rosebush in this fall. Maybe I should be realistic, and just clean out stuff for the construction.

No new beds for me. I need to spend a year maintaining what I have and see if I have bitten off more than I can chew. :) We moved here three years ago from a much smaller lot, and it has been Plant-A-Palooza ever since. I need to slow down.

I will be juggling plants around, as usual. I enlarged the bed under our oak tree last fall, using the newspaper method. I think I'm going to give it a full year, till next fall, before I plant it. Of course, that's what I say now, before the garden centers get all the perennials in...

I am going to be maintaining the beds I already have except I hope to plant a couple of fruit trees. We have two fuji apples now that have borne fruit the past two years. Would like to try peaches. My battle cry is to plant more food then ever before, even in the pots. I've always had a veggie garden but the past three years I have let myself really be pre occupied with my expanding rose garden and this season instead of planting new roses it will be more vegetables throughout the season. Reminds me I need to place my seed order:)

Having said that even though it is too early for us to have plants I'm wondering if the Home Depot in Reno has at least primroses yet. They really usher in spring for me.

Kate

I'm adding a small place for corn in my vegetable garden(45'X 25')and moving some large perennials to a new 'lasagna' bed that will also have two winter squash and one tomato plant.

I view my garden as a painter views his canvas. When he cannot afford more canvas he simply paints over the canvas he already has. My garden is in a constant state of change. Even when I am pleased and well satisfied with the results, that does not stop me from doing it all over again. Al

I need to start downsizing as I cannot keep up anymore, but have trouble getting in my head exactly what to do. I gave away many day lilies and Siberian Irises in the fall. My Autumn Joy sedums are poking through so plan on digging some of them up and hope they will be wanted.