PHILADELPHIA — Jessica Dommes' backyard looked like a life-size advertisement for the joy of gardening on a recent April morning. A yellow forsythia bush bloomed under a cloudless blue sky; the sun shone in that newly spring way that makes you want to go outside and stay there.
Dommes, 33, was preparing for the season — but not by cobbling together a raised bed or buying cucumber seeds at the hardware store. Instead, Dommes had scheduled a consultation with Backyard Eats, a young Philly company that helps people build, plant, maintain, and even harvest home vegetable gardens.
"At my last place, I painstakingly dug up the grass and put in beds myself," said Dommes, a computer programmer and novice pandemic gardener. "And I do not want to repeat that experience at all."
