Potatos! Onions! and Fruit! Oh MY!
It’s been a really big week. The potato and onion patch is in the ground. Potatoes are supposed to be in the ground by Valentines Day don’t cha know. And as for the onions? Well they are usually a cold weather crop in our area, but I’m growing them for the scallions. I’ve been told this combo is “companion crop” planting. This is my first time trying it that way, but here’s hoping!
Fruit TREES???? I knew what they were going to look like when they were ordered, and they were as promised. STICKS. Hubby helped dig the holes for the fruit sticks and dug out his childhood memories of planting fruit trees with his Grandfather down Miami way. Later that day, while walking through a big box garden center I sighed with envy at the tall, leaved, picture card included, trees. Knowing they would bear fruit much sooner than my sticks. When the price tag read three times what the sticks cost, well, there was a small glimmer of smug. Fruit trees aren’t planted for just a single season, but for a lifetime and, well, here’s hoping!
The BIG garden is just about ready for planting. The first layer of manure is spread out, and needs to be tilled in, then another layer added for good measure. Researching optimum planting layouts was interesting, informative, and confusing as all get out. It made a significant dent in my confidence level. So the planting returns to my gut instinct, what has been acquired by my past failures (and success) trusting that it is enough. Here’s hoping!
I cleared an extra 25 square feet. for the Tea Herbs Garden. Herbs for tea apparently grow taller than the usual cooks garden herbs. So they needed more space. Most of the varieties I’ve never even had a cup of, but that’s not the point. I wanted to learn and know about this kind a horticulture as an entre’e into medicinal herbs. Seemed like a good place to start, So here’s hoping!
The hens are laying very well, better than expected! SUCCESS! My friends and neighbors are now returning my re-used egg cartons. My neighbor 75 yr old “Miss” Anna had this to say… “I’d like as many eggs as you can spare, here’s the empty carton you gave me so when you have enough to share…” (hint hint). What’s not wonderful about THAT! The next day she brought me a big slice of cheesecake she had made with my eggs, and brought a stack of 6, 12, and 18 compartment egg cartons. Now there’s some hope for ya.
Ms Anna has now become part of my distribution network!
In amongst all of this, there was a Cervical Myelogram (arrggh pain arrgh pain) a CT Scan, some X-rays, and a Neurosurgeon visit. This particular journey is moving from cervical straight to brain. The brain MRI is Friday. I guess they’re looking for something more. Getting kind of hard to hold on to the hope.
Then, looking out the kitchen window, at the garden beds ready for sowing, and the rounded mounds with eyed potential, and the strengthening stalks of the onion sets, and the bright Kelly green of the rye grass path to the chicken yard. Well, there’s the hope.
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