Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Spring

 Once again, it is gray, and it is snowing. 

And in the kitchen, I set up the wash basins I use to start my plants. I have saved empty toilet paper and paper towel tubes. I cut them to size (about 3 inches in length), pack them standing on end into the basins and fill them with potting soil. It's too early to actually plant the seeds, but I go through them once again, planning, hopeful, excited. 

I'm adding a new project this year: mushrooms, and I'm so very excited about that, I cannot even tell you.

And every year, I say to myself, "This will be the best garden ever!"

Every year, I am right. 

In 20 years or so, I should know what I'm doing!

15 comments:

  1. I should be doing something like this, because I always wait until spring to start seeds and that shortens the flowering season. (I'm growing flowers, not veg.) I started a bunch of foxgloves last fall but I believe between the squirrels and the snow they've all died. I'll have to replant fresh seeds in March or April.

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  2. We got some cheap veg seeds from Lidl on Sunday. Roll on Spring.

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  3. Maybe this will be the year of asparagus.

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  4. Learning new things and being hopeful for a better future keep us moving forward. I usually only grow tomatoes, but this summer I will want to travel, if possible. So, I'm taking the year off.

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  5. I bought my seeds last weekend but its too cold to plant them just now. If I plant them too early in the house they just get leggy and are not as strong so I'll just wait and plan. Like you, in about 20 years I'll get the hang of this! x

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  6. From your lips to God's ears Ed!

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  7. Where will you be growing the mushrooms Debby? Politicians often treat the people like mushrooms - keep them in the dark and feed them with shit.

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  8. Please assure Ed that once you have asparagus, it's not "a year" - it's a long-term commitment.

    As long as I can get a chili harvest or two I am content. We don't have a lot under cultivation these days - the shifting rocks in the ground and the lack of water from the sky have conspired to break the yardman's heart.

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  9. Oh Ed knows about asparagus. He is one of the sad folks who have more asparagus than they know what to do with. It is a life goal of mine to be Ed, asparagusly speaking.

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  10. You must love it. I started from seeds -- once. It was enough. I'll just buy the plants that I want. Of course, it would probably be different if you were to grow veggies.

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  11. I'm growing vegetables. This is the first time that I saved seeds from a previous year. I also bought seeds just in case I find out I don't know how to save seeds.

    YP - we have a shallow well on site. It is certainly not fit to be used as drinking water. I've designed a small outbuilding around it. The shiitake logs will be stacked like lincoln logs in the center of the building. The oysters will be grown in five gallon buckets suspended from the the roof truss. My plan is that the well will keep things humid, and there will be adjustable ventilation to control the amount of moisture. It's an experiment.

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  12. It is going to be the best garden ever one year so why not 2021. Good luck.

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  13. More like, every year it gets improved. So every year it's the best garden I ever had, but I always know that I can improve on it. I've only had this garden for three years.

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  14. It's a good feeling to be well-organised.

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