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Apr. 23rd, 2020 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeToday was the best day of things not going to plan I've had in a long time.
So the plan was, since Home Depot had warnings all over its site that things would be delayed as they were busy and also maintaining Covid restrictions, so I penciled in my schedule writing before 10, pick up the wheelbarrow at 10, errands and gardening for a couple hours, and back to work. This did not happen.
What happened instead was Home Depot texted me at 8 after I'd had time to wake up and shower and put on semi-decent clothes, but before I'd gotten any writing done. The boy said sure let's go now, so we went and we got the wheelbarrow and some tomato starts because I am impatient and I don't know when the local place will have any, and also now that I ...
Now that I have checked and see that they have lettuce and scallions I'm getting some scallions and some lettuce and the scallions can freaking go into the buckets so that they don't populate the entire bed they're in. I have actually no idea how to grow lettuce best, I've never had it not get eaten by critters before. Pots in the sun porch, I guess. If I can keep the cats off them. Anyway.
Now that I have the wheelbarrow I can start clearing out a shitton of various beds and start planting things. Now that I've got a KitchenAid vegetable strainer I can do something with the tomatoes I grow in much less time, which will be a good habit to get into when everything gets back to normal. In a way it's nice to have the time to fuck up gardening and using the harvest and fixing it, and then hopefully when things go back to normal I'll be able to garden around working a day job and a writing job. In any case. And, heh, now I have various plants coming. Squash and radish seeds including daikon! I hope I can successfully grow daikon, I really want to try cooking with them. I've ordered blueberry bushes from the local, and strawberry, and the romaine and scallions so that's most of the starts I want. Except for more canning tomato plants. I just need to not go overboard with expectations of myself, gardening.
Anyway, so we got home with the wheelbarrow and starts, I did do some writing for a couple of hours which was wise of me because then I got started clearing out the shed (easy enough, moving things around) and the place in the back where we dump all the yard debris, grass clippings, pruned tree branches, etc. (much more difficult) There was far more debris in that area of the yard than I thought, a large downed branch that I had to saw into three or four pieces, smaller downed branches that I only had to saw in half, a whole bunch of things that had been pulled down with the large branch, and whatever that parasitic? vine is growing over everything knotting it together. I got that done, took a breath for some water and peanuts because I hadn't eaten an "I'm going to be doing heavy labor" breakfast, then went and cleared out the first raised bed to get it set for the tomatoes I'd just got. Got that planted.
Decided while I was at it to thin out the seedlings! from the store-bought peppers!! and put them in their pots in the raised bed anyway, rather than try and transplant seedlings into the raised bed. I'm actually, now that I think about it, going to move them into the covered shelf and move that downstairs either to the sun porch or actually out on the porch, but it'll do for tonight. And while I was doing that I got the bright idea to instead of pulling and discarding seedlings, try and pull and transplant the seedlings into some more discarded starts pots. So that got done, I put them in the raised bed, I'd refilled the bucket of succulent mix while I was at it and used half succulent mix half raised bed mix on the new seedling pots, and we'll see what happens there.
And after that I was exhausted, dehydrated, and so headachey I ordered pizza and then ate it wondering if I was going to keep it down. And eventually I went and napped and then nothing else work-like got done for the rest of the day, but you know? It was a good day.
For the record I'm growing many tomatoes, basil, oregano, squash and beans in the second bed because I like squash-based soups and ragouts and things anyway, and beans because we both like green beans in our stir fry. I'm growing radishes, scallions, strawberries, and maybe zucchini in pots. I don't know where I'm going to put the lettuce but if I'm getting lettuce maybe I might as well get broccoli and cauliflower, I know we eat that. Maybe I just put them in the sun porch so they don't get eaten by whatever's out there eating my greens. That's a future speculation.
So the plan was, since Home Depot had warnings all over its site that things would be delayed as they were busy and also maintaining Covid restrictions, so I penciled in my schedule writing before 10, pick up the wheelbarrow at 10, errands and gardening for a couple hours, and back to work. This did not happen.
What happened instead was Home Depot texted me at 8 after I'd had time to wake up and shower and put on semi-decent clothes, but before I'd gotten any writing done. The boy said sure let's go now, so we went and we got the wheelbarrow and some tomato starts because I am impatient and I don't know when the local place will have any, and also now that I ...
Now that I have checked and see that they have lettuce and scallions I'm getting some scallions and some lettuce and the scallions can freaking go into the buckets so that they don't populate the entire bed they're in. I have actually no idea how to grow lettuce best, I've never had it not get eaten by critters before. Pots in the sun porch, I guess. If I can keep the cats off them. Anyway.
Now that I have the wheelbarrow I can start clearing out a shitton of various beds and start planting things. Now that I've got a KitchenAid vegetable strainer I can do something with the tomatoes I grow in much less time, which will be a good habit to get into when everything gets back to normal. In a way it's nice to have the time to fuck up gardening and using the harvest and fixing it, and then hopefully when things go back to normal I'll be able to garden around working a day job and a writing job. In any case. And, heh, now I have various plants coming. Squash and radish seeds including daikon! I hope I can successfully grow daikon, I really want to try cooking with them. I've ordered blueberry bushes from the local, and strawberry, and the romaine and scallions so that's most of the starts I want. Except for more canning tomato plants. I just need to not go overboard with expectations of myself, gardening.
Anyway, so we got home with the wheelbarrow and starts, I did do some writing for a couple of hours which was wise of me because then I got started clearing out the shed (easy enough, moving things around) and the place in the back where we dump all the yard debris, grass clippings, pruned tree branches, etc. (much more difficult) There was far more debris in that area of the yard than I thought, a large downed branch that I had to saw into three or four pieces, smaller downed branches that I only had to saw in half, a whole bunch of things that had been pulled down with the large branch, and whatever that parasitic? vine is growing over everything knotting it together. I got that done, took a breath for some water and peanuts because I hadn't eaten an "I'm going to be doing heavy labor" breakfast, then went and cleared out the first raised bed to get it set for the tomatoes I'd just got. Got that planted.
Decided while I was at it to thin out the seedlings! from the store-bought peppers!! and put them in their pots in the raised bed anyway, rather than try and transplant seedlings into the raised bed. I'm actually, now that I think about it, going to move them into the covered shelf and move that downstairs either to the sun porch or actually out on the porch, but it'll do for tonight. And while I was doing that I got the bright idea to instead of pulling and discarding seedlings, try and pull and transplant the seedlings into some more discarded starts pots. So that got done, I put them in the raised bed, I'd refilled the bucket of succulent mix while I was at it and used half succulent mix half raised bed mix on the new seedling pots, and we'll see what happens there.
And after that I was exhausted, dehydrated, and so headachey I ordered pizza and then ate it wondering if I was going to keep it down. And eventually I went and napped and then nothing else work-like got done for the rest of the day, but you know? It was a good day.
For the record I'm growing many tomatoes, basil, oregano, squash and beans in the second bed because I like squash-based soups and ragouts and things anyway, and beans because we both like green beans in our stir fry. I'm growing radishes, scallions, strawberries, and maybe zucchini in pots. I don't know where I'm going to put the lettuce but if I'm getting lettuce maybe I might as well get broccoli and cauliflower, I know we eat that. Maybe I just put them in the sun porch so they don't get eaten by whatever's out there eating my greens. That's a future speculation.