You can plan, and you can hope, but planning and hoping won’t always make things happen. My plan was to plant seeds on Tuesday. I got pretty busy between my two jobs, so this didn’t happen. Then it rained. However, it didn’t just rain. It was also very cold outside. I consider below 60 degrees [...]
Archive for April, 2010
18 Apr
Why I Didn’t Plant Today
I did it again. I told you all I was going to do something before I did it, and then I didn’t do it. I went out to the garden to poke some holes in the dirt for seeds this evening, but when I flipped the paper envelopes of seeds over to read the instructions [...]
18 Apr
Garden Zen
I’m going to admit something to you. I really only have time to work on my garden once or twice a week. All week long, I was thinking about my next post and how I was going to title it “How To Give Up”. Yes, I was going to give up on tilling by hand [...]
12 Apr
How to Till With Your Bare Hands!
There have been some obstacles to starting my garden. I live in the Midwest, a part of the country with extremely unpredictable weather. Every chance that I’ve had from mid-February, when I wanted to start, until this weekend, it has either snowed, rained, or I’ve had previous engagements. Life and weather sometimes get in the [...]
12 Apr
The N00b Garden
When I was a kid, my father always kept a vegetable garden and I always helped. For nearly eighteen years of my life, I dug my fingers in the dirt, got seeds stuck to my hands, let mud mush between my toes, and plucked weeds out with my fingers. It was wonderful. I lived for [...]
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