My front yard gets full sun – and far more sun than my backyard where I grow all my vegetables. But I never plant vegetables in the front. I’m nervous about neighborhood dogs peeing in the garden, or passerbys taking a tomato. But I’m reminded of another very big reason:
After a snow storm, I shovel the snow into my front yard, as that’s the only place to put it. Mixed in with all the snow is sand and salt from all the plow trucks that go down my street. I can’t imagine the state of my soil after I winter like the one we’re having now.
In New York, we like to complain about the weather, but you really did get it worse up North.
Oh, yes, you’ve got snow! After a while, you have to wonder how much snow that little yard will be able to hold.
When I lived in New York I had the same problem. Just couldn’t get the nerve to try a garden in the front yard. Some of my neighbors made raised beds. For some it worked for others, not really.
Such a dilemma that darn snow!!!