How does the garden grow? Better than the blog, that’s for sure
Boy, howdy, my blog Mojo, she is gone. I am beyond flummoxed about where my urge to purge has up and sauntered off to, and I have no idea if she’s coming back any time soon or not. I feel abandoned. Or maybe I’m just busy? Either way, it’s kind of a bummer. I miss talking here, but sit down to write and there’s nothing to say. It’s like a stillness but without the peace, because I’m also teetering on this thin edge of existence between anxiety and oh, crap. It’s calm, but only on the surface.
Meanwhile, stuff grows:
thanks to the constant and regular rotation of deep soaking rain and blazing sunshine.
And I am reading the blogs. How else would I find such wonderful trellising ideas? Thanks, Meg and Kelly! I’m going to get taller bamboo next year, though…these aren’t nearly tall enough — just about 6.5 feet.
and have I mentioned the lettuce? I probably haven’t mentioned the lettuce because I’ve been all mute and shit around here lately, but people, the lettuce! I’m riding the crest of the wave ahead of the slugs with my iron phosphate pellets and so far, these babies are just thriving in the cool nights, rainy/sunny days and awesome new lasagna beds. I expect to harvest a couple by the weekend.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
June 24th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Hi there:
I’m coming out of lurk mode (actually, I just found you over the weekend) to ask for more details on the iron and phosphate pellets. I am thoroughly pissed off with the slugs that are attacking my lacinato kale. Where did you find it, how do you apply it, and any particular brand you’d suggest ??
{heavy sigh}
ANGEL
June 24th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I just applied SLUGGO last night. My plants were covered with more slimy critters that I have ever seen before.
And about the blog—you’ve had just a wee bit of things on your plate, yes ?
June 24th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Wow, your trellis looks awesome! It’s got kind of a Sydney Opera House thing going on. What’s growing up it, beans?
I think the lettuce upstages it, though. Everything looks fantastic!
June 24th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Lovely lettuce!
June 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I bet you’re enjoying some fantastic salads. We are too!
Blessings!
Lacy
June 26th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I really think I would have given up the garden this year if it weren’t for Sluggo. I’d love to know why the slugs have gotten so bad…
June 28th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hiding out indoors from heavy smoke. There are hundreds of fires in the region!
Put up some new photos in case you are curious……
PS I love your trellis work. Looks like fairy ships sailing through the garden.