So… I have learned that crowding your balcony so full of plants that you don’t have tables can cause harm to marital bliss!  Don’t worry not my marital bliss because our balcony is holding the toilet that will go back in our bathroom once it is tiled.  Yep, I am super classy.  But apparently how much room plants take up in your house can be a point of contention.

Don’t worry I, Katelin Taylor, ever preserver of marriages (hee hee hee, it’s an inside joke maybe you will get it someday) have a solution:

Rent part of a community garden from Arlington Parks.  They have seven locations.

• S. Four Mile Run Drive along the Bike Trail
• S. 9th Street and S. Buchanan along the Bike Trail
• Fort Barnard (S. Walter Reed Drive & Pollard Street)
• S. Glebe and S. Lang Streets
• N. Barton and N. 10th Streets
• S. 9th Street and Rolfe Streets
• N. Harrison Street (near Chestnut Hill Park)
• 1601 Key Blvd.

The ones closer to the metro are harder to get.  You must be an Arlington resident.  They charge a fee which they don’t say is yearly or monthly, but I assume yearly.  Community garden rentals cost $60 (with water) and $50 (without water) for full plots, $30 and $25, respectively, for half plots.

First timers can only have a half plot.  And there is a waiting list.  But here is the information to apply.  So here is to your victory garden.

There is a friend of mine who has tomato plants over-growing her house that I will be trying to convince to get a plot with me (apply now for next year?  It’ll be great).  And lucky my brother is the crazy hippy urban gardner on T St. and can consult on what to plant when and what varietals to plant.  Really you need people to share squash with and help weed.  And who doesn’t love a farm to table experience?

So yay Arlington parks once again and victory gardens.  And friends who like squash.

Virginia is for lovers after all.

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