It was a gorgeous day in Tucson today. Warm, sunny, and perfect to start our garden. Now, we don't have a lot of space, so there was a lot of hemming and hawing about what we had room to plant. Container plants can be difficult here, unless you're one of those people who can remember to water something twice a day when it's 110 out.
I am not one of those people.
So, in the ground it is. Let's see - we definitely want tomatoes. And we definitely want the tomatoes that worked out for us so well last year, so 8 Early Girls go into the cart. Rich wants eggplants, so two of those are our new friends, along with a packet of cucumber seeds. My aunt donated some squash seeds; spaghetti squash and yellow crookneck, two of my favorites.
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Now, all we need is some garden soil, and we're good to go. $25 later, and our garden is ready to take home and try to make grow.
That was yesterday. Today, we dug. I prepared the small beds while Rich dug holes in a long-neglected area of the back "yard". Poor guy - lots of rocks! But we got all of the Early Girls in, the eggplants, cucumber seeds planted, and the cilantro that leapt into our cart at the last minute also has found its spot. I even managed to plant the basil seeds in starter pots inside.
Tomorrow, the squash and the lettuce! I'll be trying to grow the lettuce inside, as I have a super sunny room that will lend itself perfectly to the nursery. So they and the basil will be sharing a table until I either kill them or they turn into real plants.
How does YOUR garden grow? ;)
The comments:
From bronte17:
grover so eloquently reminds us of "the simplest and most profound thing" we can do... do not forget me. Re-member me in I am No One; Some One; Every One by gchaucer2.
From Dragon5616:
canoedog had this thoughtful comment about hidden costs involved in economically-forced moves in Leftcandid's rescued diary Is Interstate Economic Competition Good for People?
From Mnemosyne:
In Jerome a Paris’ excellent discussion of the finances of wind power, Financing energy infrastructure, ExStr8 summed up the nuke/non-nuke argument most elegantly: What is the half-life of a wind turbine?
From someone who forgot to include their Dkos name:
Submitting this comment by ontheleftcoast.
From sardonyx:
In RockyMtnLib's diary A back-and-forth with my Teapublican relative, offgrid gives us some useful definitions.
My picks:
I had to laugh at this gem from LeftyCoaster.
HamptonRoadsProgressive had a good idea what to do with copies of the Awesome Rant. heh heh heh
smileycreek introduced me to a new name for Ann Coulter. (shudder)
Plunderism reigns in America, per Jim P. As one of the serfs, I agree.