Yeah I have a seed collection as well. Stuff I haven't even planted and probably won't. What's crazy is that I find myself browsing the seed rack when I'm at the store. I don't need anything but somehow a pack or two of seeds ends up making it to the check out line.
The grass I want to take up is just a strip along the side of the yard by my fruit trees blueberries, and raspberries. I want to just put bark down through there. But in the back I have a decent amount of real estate that gets sun for most of the day. That's where I'm putting the squash in pots. I'll put off taking the grass up until early next spring. Too much stuff to do like painting the interior and exterior of the house, putting in some flooring, crawling under the house and replacing the crappy Poly-B (Polybutylene) plumbing that's already sprung a few leaks that I fixed with some shark bite fittings but it's just a matter of time until that garbage springs another leak somewhere. Owning a home is work unless you want to throw thousands to someone else to do the work for you which I don't.
My long term plan is to garden behind the house where all the broken trees are now. Also the wife has been wanting a greenhouse for years. I would like to get it in back there in the next couple of three years.
I have all the normal things, plus the hurricane damage to sort. Every day I spend in the garden is a day I'm not cutting trees behind the house so we can get a new shed moved in. I go in circles. Working on one thing a day or two, then moving on to something else.
I hate paying hurricane prices to get my roofs fixed, but all my buddies who would help me in normal times are so tied up it would be months before they got to us. And like the wife keeps saying, we did get paid for the damage. After the house and shed roofs, we will still have about 10K left from what the insurance company paid. But that doesn't account for a pole barn, pump house and back deck yet to be replaced.
