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Garedening?

Posted at 11:34 PM on April 6, 2008 by Vera Schabicki (4 Comments)

This weekend my beloved spouse and I planted forty strawberries, 9 kohlrabies, 9 broccolli, 9 caulifower, and 9 Brussells sprouts....we added to our asparagus bed...a couple of weeks ago I planted a lot of peas and green beans and swiss chard and radishes (none have come up yet)....oh yeah a couple of asparagus plants, also 100 onions thingies and about ten pounds of potato seedlings.

The plants I got from Hall's Feed and Seed look great, the seedlings I started look like unloved and malnourished children. This causes me great pain (not as great as childbirth), I tried to be a loving parent to these seedlings but the neglect that only a mother of many children can inflict is evident in their spindly thin toppling over condition. These are not the seedlings that I would feel comfortable sending out into the wild world.....maybe they know what happend to their brethtren last year....surviving the the tender mercies of our calm family (I guess it would help if we were home sometimes) to be put into a beautiful rich lasagna garden to then be ruthlessly dug up by evil armadillo man, no wire covering, no cage, no bright lights, dogs or sprinklers could protect these stalwart seedlings..... thank goodness the Websters Market had a lot of reasonably priced tomatoe and pepper plants to bury into the compost left by the husk of the former occupants. Hope springs eternal.

Best wishes, Vera

Comments (4)

Wow, and I was happy when our spinach was coming up. I am guessing it is a little warmer down there than here, we got snow again today. Good luck fighting the creatures!

Gina

Posted by Gina Keenan | April 7, 2008 10:44 PM

We have had a LOT of rain, which is a very good thing since we have had drought conditions for the last couple of years, last year they had a frost around april 15th that killed all of the local fruit....I understand the weather here is changing in a subtle but definite way ( I am new to this area myself). My gardening skills are pretty limited, I hope all the things I put in the ground actually grow....thanks for the well wishes.

Posted by Vera Schabicki | April 7, 2008 11:53 PM

I went to Halls Feed and Seed and checked out their plants last week. I still need to work on amending my new garden beds before planting, but it was very tempting. I really wanted to buy a bunch of their herbs. Do you know, do they normally carry fennel plants? It is so hard to get anything exotic plant-wise (or anything wise) here in the mid-south!
Anyhow my plant leering was quickly interutped by the peep peeps of the baby chickies. Thank goodness my DH was with me so we could discuss backyard chicken keeping with Mrs. Hall's Feed and Seed - I think he is almost convinced!

michele m.

shelby county, TN

Posted by michele | April 16, 2008 8:46 PM

Dear Michele,

I had not noticed any excotic plants around here either, except....... the truly wonderful looking artichoke plants, they were green lively, healthy......I wish I had gotten more than two...we used to get these really cute little artichokes in our vegetable box in California, I would slice and saute' them, yummy, am very curious how these will turn out. Do you think it would be even vaguely feasable to start some artichoke plants from seed at this point in the year? I know Seeds of Change sells the seeds.

Best wishes, Vera

Posted by vera h schabicki | April 17, 2008 12:54 AM