Hello! I seem to come back every couple of years, write a quick post, and then vanish. But I've been looking for somewhere to keep track of my garden and this seems to be the best place. I'm certainly making a dream, a dream of food and flowers--and you may as well hear me say it up front--NO SQUIRRELS. They've destroyed my every attempt at gardening for years now, and what they haven't gotten, the grasshoppers and roly-polies and late frosts have.
I should update on my last posts. My hugelkultur beds were a great success and the elderberries I planted in them were exuberant--too exuberant, because we discovered to our dismay that Gryph is allergic to the blossoms. We finally had to give the shrubs away.
Doing Intuitive Readings only lasted for a while, because in July 2015 I got a perforated bowel and ended up in the hospital for three weeks. It took me a long while to recuperate from that.
I went back to school in Fall 2016, majored in music, but in the spring of 2019 I got cancer. It came as a huge shock. All that I knew I had was diverticulitis, so when I went in for antibiotics and instead had to have immediate surgery, I was blown away. I finished that semester but couldn't go back; had chemotherapy that summer and the side effects seem to be permanent. I still write and arrange music. Probably always will, but school is over for me.
The new roof is holding well and we got a wheelchair ramp off the back porch as well, so now we can get up and down more easily.
I did my best to recover from the aftereffects of the chemo all through this weird tough year, tried to garden, and was defeated at every turn. Which brings me to now, and my Yuletide gift sitting in the back yard: a small portable greenhouse! We dragged in some of my bigger pots and I replanted the peas which the squirrels have been ravaging, plus I got lettuce, kohlrabi, and swiss chard planted. The greenhouse has shelves, so today I went rummaging through the recycling bin and pulled out the toilet paper and paper towel cores, plus I pulled out the cores I had stashed in my craft supplies. I used saved deli trays as bases and filled the cores with potting soil, planted a couple kinds of beets, a couple kinds of carrots... and totally ran out of room. Huh. That did not take long!
Because I'm planting two and three year old seeds, I planted pretty thickly. (Germination drops off year by year.) I'm hoping it hasn't been too long. I might drop in some fast-sprouting lettuce seeds to get the best use out of the "pots"... ah, there we go. "Merveille Des Quatre Saisons" lettuce--this year's seed from Baker Creek, so should germinate strongly--and as I thin the baby lettuces, the beets and carrots should start germinating.
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Can't wait to see how this all works out.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait, either!
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