Apparently not very well.
I had a notion that my plants were still a bit small, but that was confirmed on a visit to a friend's garden. Her zucchini plants are about 10 times bigger than mine and her tomato and pepper plants are at least double. We do have some ripening salad tomatoes and lots of buds on the plants, and the zucchini plants have one flower, but they should be farther along by now. Much farther along.
Hmmm....problem solving mode.
I went to Ace this weekend and bought some mushroom compost and a drip irrigation system along with a metal trash can to contain my brand-new compost pile. The mushroom compost is in, the compost pile is started and the irrigation system is on my list of things to do.
My hubs set up 3 valves into the garden and all I have to do is set up the hoses.
This is a challenge for me, but I am excited to start it. I feel capable and incapable at the same time, probably because it's a new thing. All I have to do is tackle the laundry, pay the bills, and the irrigation system will be top of the list.
Yesterday afternoon while we were working outside my kids asked me what was for lunch. I told them to figure it out themselves. This is what they came up with:
Smoothies and wraps. So great. They even cooperated and got along while they made all of it. That's even greater than the meal itself.
I have cut off my favorite pair of jeans to make gardening shorts. The jeans were years old, they fit really well, but the fabric was thinning and they had huge holes in the knees. Now they accompany me to the garden and I love how they feel. The perfect pair of jeans is so hard to find and it feels wrong to let them die. So glad to find a new use for them.
Happy gardening!
