Could the day have gotten any better? Saturday was glorious outside and I was able to spend a good few hours under the sunshine thanks to my husband. Some explanation is due...2 of of the 4 boys inside the house are sick with coughs, one w/ fever & wheezy, and yet another one suffering from 15 year dork syndrome...good times.
They day started at 4am with Jake having an impressive nose bleed which of course woke everyone else up. So, after about an 8 hour stint of nonstop boy fuss, I was finally able to get outside. I think they would have eventually figured out a way to get me to step outside so they could close & lock the door behind me...I was getting a little spun up.
To the garden with ye banshee, don’t come back ‘til ye are filthy and smell like bat barf!
A little catch up is probably necessary since I’ve been slacking in my blogging, so here it goes… I’ve repotted & resituated the blackberry vines, out of the five gallon buckets I plopped them in eons ago, to grow over the newly relocated garden arch. I moved it and the entry and the east side beds four feet further into the yard. (Yes, I’m slowly taking over) (duh!)
Moving on….having annexed 4 additional feet required additional weed pulling (gross), so I thought I’d help this process on a little by putting landscaper fabric over the whole area a couple of weeks ago….ahhh no dice. Still had to pull up all those little babies, but, I had gotten two new implements of weed destruction recently so a hacking I would go. The new bendy pitch fork thing really is quite awe inspiring, but my back muscles later exclaimed “ummm what were you thinking? Hacking and swinging that thing like an amazon warrior princess running for her life through the jungle?” What, I had a bit of angst to work out….don’t get me started I finally found some garden zen.
Where was I…Oh! Catching you up. Wildside acquired a small single stack greenhouse. Not the walk in one I wanted, but a very functional 4 shelf 6ft high one. Riley likes to help zip it up. He and I planted all kinds of flower seeds that he picked out. “A garden must have flowers mommy, and these are flowers, and their pretty… just like you” and that’s how 8 packets of flower seeds came home.
We’ve started seeds for black tomatoes, pole beans, cantaloupe, watermelon, spaghetti squash, and huge sunflowers. All of the flowers have come up, the veggies are still percolating. I’ve been eyeballing tomato plants at the various stores, still too early. They’re very leggy and unimpressive. Must exercise patience grasshopper.
I think that about sums up the goings on so far, oh wait, there is the biker I gave my number to trying to score some yard bricks…..Yes, yes I did and he’s called me twice. I’ll save this little morsel for another day because the next paragraph could save your business.
So, there’s a very good reason I don’t muck about in the garden in shorts. Yes, even on those scorcher days, I’m still out there in my trusty overalls, sweating to death and getting horrible sunburn lines. (I don’t tan, I blister) Ok, so I’m sitting there on my little yellow chair, pulling out those daggum weeds, wielding my hacker like the aforementioned amazon, minding my own business, when I feel something approaching my business. I look down and to my horror I see the back end of a pinch bug heading straight into my business area! Thankfully, I had on new tidies with snug elastic leg bands or we would be having a completely different conversation!
Moral of the story, always where overalls and your trusty full coverage tidy whities in the garden or you may end up with uninvited creatures in your whohaa.
