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June 2, 2008

So, my potatoes were a bit slow to emerge but they are up and gorgeously dark and leafy. I added the second tire to my stacks and more dirt. It really does take a lot of dirt so I think I’ll have to buy some so I can stop stealing the precious medium from my other beds. I was running all about my yard taking shovels full from here and there and I imagined my plants saying hey, bitch, that’s for MY roots. I have a history with that soil. You can’t just take part of my soul and give it away to the new spud on the block.

I do often think about my different plants and their personalities and voices. What would a bush bean say to a purple cabbage? You and your show offy, ditsy foliage. You are narcissistic. I, on the other hand, carefully conceal my treasure. My modesty is only interrupted when the time is right. And then, everyone is impressed with my thick-skinned, bold, phallic fruit.

I put everything in the ground last weekend. My peas are growing like an inch a day. Radish are ready to be harvested. Spinach are up. Carrots, beans, cabbage, purslane, tomatoes in the dirt. I still have to get the peppers in but I think I’ll wait until my early greens are gone. My arugula and greens bolted because it was really effing cold for a long time and then 90 degrees and the poor bastards didn’t know what was happening so they just started blooming and climbing toward the sun. The good news is that they still taste great.

I planted some raspberries. I got a tiny sunburn on my back. Bug hung out in the saucer and danced as I weeded and spread compost. Lilacs are in ripe bloom, the cats rolled in the hay that paved my garden paths. It was a good and overdue weekend in the dirt.

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7 Comments


Katie
June 3, 2008 at 2:57 AM

Now I see why the potatoes in the tire method is so valuable! Thanks for the pics. Things are really starting to grow there (including bug!)



Kate
June 4, 2008 at 1:52 AM

Holy shit, great fence. Is that electrified?! Video made me crack UP.



Blackswamp_Girl
June 4, 2008 at 3:24 AM

Your veggies have WAAAAAY more personality than mine, thank god! I wouldn’t be able to… um… eat those beans. Heh.

Sounds like a great weekend, save the sunburn. I’m nursing one of those, too… apparently sunscreen goes bad much more quickly than I had thought. And I always seem to have to learn everything the hard way.



Gypsy Root
June 4, 2008 at 6:13 AM

Every time I read your blog I crave salad…mmm…
Why the tires for the potatoes…Sorry if you already explained this, I was just curious if they contribute to the growth of something.
digging your blog 🙂



TRB Holt
June 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Beautiful garden Nici! AND Bug, you are a railroad dancing Queen.

xoxo to both of you, Mom



jkoch
June 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM

i randomly happened upon your blog and i’m so glad for it! it’s been so inspirational. my family lives lexington, kentucky and we’re soon to have some chicks of our own, so i’ve enjoyed reading (and gleaning wisdom) from your adventures! by the way, your garden is gorgeous.



dig this chick
June 8, 2008 at 7:48 PM

Gypsy: The tires work for potatoes in small plots because they grow up instead of out. Here’s how: You plant the seed potatoes in one tire and when they grow tall, add a tire and more dirt. This forces them stem to become root and therefor more potato! When it is time to harvest, you just knock the tire stack over. This is my first year doing this but I have read that one stack of tires can yield like 30 pounds of spuds!



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