The grass is starting to take over the garden. I was muttering to my future husband about the grass and saying that I think it is good for the garden. I launched into my thoughts about it protecting my food, and he said in his gentle quiet way: "I think that actually it sucks the nutrients away from the food that is trying to grow". Damn. So I have a new plan....Saturday I will be pulling grass and weeds out of the garden.
I went outside to look at ground and see if I could tell the difference between weeds and whatever may be growing. I'll be darned if there aren't rows of green bean starts emerging from the soil!!!!! How fabulous is that!!! Food!!!! It's growing!!! WOO HOO!!! I can hardly believe it. I am so excited I might dance around a little where no one can see me.
I noticed something interesting when I was looking at the bean starts. I know they are bean starts because as they pop up out of the soil, they have little teeny white hangy down things that look like they might be something important eventually. That's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that I planted all the seeds in a straight row. Those sprouts are coming up not in a straight row. Some are a couple inches to the right, a couple inches to the left, and some have 2 little sprouts coming up in one spot. No wonder it has taken so long to see them. Most of them are not growing straight up...they are taking a detour underground. I wonder what causes that? I know they are from the seeds I planted because in the dirt close to where each of these sprouts is popping up is the white skin of the seed, laying on the ground open. Very weird. Not at all what I expected to see.
So gardening is not the neat little rows of food that I expected. Not that I care. I am a slob by profession, and so I don't care if it is neat or not, I am just surprised. I have taken occasional hits about my messiness, and lack of "organization". I always argue that I can find what I need. I know where my stuff is. In my world, if you can find it, you are organized. So it is quite affirming to discover that this beautiful garden of mine works under the same universal principal. Neatness plays no part in nature. The beauty of what we see, and the miracle of growth is not neat and tidy. But it is miraculous nevertheless.
We are supposed to have another 70 degree day today. I am sitting at my dining table looking out at the water, and the trees and all the lavender that is blooming, and I am getting ready for the day. It is a shorts and sandals outdoor day today.
Until tomorrow...when I am almost sure I will have more to say,
Karen
I went outside to look at ground and see if I could tell the difference between weeds and whatever may be growing. I'll be darned if there aren't rows of green bean starts emerging from the soil!!!!! How fabulous is that!!! Food!!!! It's growing!!! WOO HOO!!! I can hardly believe it. I am so excited I might dance around a little where no one can see me.
I noticed something interesting when I was looking at the bean starts. I know they are bean starts because as they pop up out of the soil, they have little teeny white hangy down things that look like they might be something important eventually. That's not the interesting part. The interesting part is that I planted all the seeds in a straight row. Those sprouts are coming up not in a straight row. Some are a couple inches to the right, a couple inches to the left, and some have 2 little sprouts coming up in one spot. No wonder it has taken so long to see them. Most of them are not growing straight up...they are taking a detour underground. I wonder what causes that? I know they are from the seeds I planted because in the dirt close to where each of these sprouts is popping up is the white skin of the seed, laying on the ground open. Very weird. Not at all what I expected to see.
So gardening is not the neat little rows of food that I expected. Not that I care. I am a slob by profession, and so I don't care if it is neat or not, I am just surprised. I have taken occasional hits about my messiness, and lack of "organization". I always argue that I can find what I need. I know where my stuff is. In my world, if you can find it, you are organized. So it is quite affirming to discover that this beautiful garden of mine works under the same universal principal. Neatness plays no part in nature. The beauty of what we see, and the miracle of growth is not neat and tidy. But it is miraculous nevertheless.
We are supposed to have another 70 degree day today. I am sitting at my dining table looking out at the water, and the trees and all the lavender that is blooming, and I am getting ready for the day. It is a shorts and sandals outdoor day today.
Until tomorrow...when I am almost sure I will have more to say,
Karen
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