Garden Update
Jun. 6th, 2008 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauEverything in my garden has sprouted quite nicely!
The potatoes aren't out yet, but the broccoli sprouted first, followed by the zucchini and corn (shoots are now 2 inches tall). Then the peas and cucumbers, sunflowers and watermelon. Carrots and spinach last. I scattered handfuls of poppy seed and parsley around between the rows and they are sprouting nicely too.
I sowed a lot of seed because I wanted to get rid of the leftover seeds from the last 2-3 plantings, mixed them in with this year's seed. I will thin the plants week after next when I get back. Just hope they stay watered, as I've asked!
Meanwhile, the deer have to cooperate by staying the hell out. I put up the deer fence, it's about four feet high which may or may not stop them but I didn't have any poles that were taller. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any deer around the neighbourhood lately....
The potatoes aren't out yet, but the broccoli sprouted first, followed by the zucchini and corn (shoots are now 2 inches tall). Then the peas and cucumbers, sunflowers and watermelon. Carrots and spinach last. I scattered handfuls of poppy seed and parsley around between the rows and they are sprouting nicely too.
I sowed a lot of seed because I wanted to get rid of the leftover seeds from the last 2-3 plantings, mixed them in with this year's seed. I will thin the plants week after next when I get back. Just hope they stay watered, as I've asked!
Meanwhile, the deer have to cooperate by staying the hell out. I put up the deer fence, it's about four feet high which may or may not stop them but I didn't have any poles that were taller. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any deer around the neighbourhood lately....
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Date: 2008-06-13 12:59 am (UTC)I think they have more generic "meat" bandages too, as well as notebooks, shower curtains, etc..
I'm writing you from Connecticut. Getting here was hell - when we were over Manitoba the pilot announced there were thunderstorms over NYC, and he did not have enough fuel to orbit, so we landed at Ottawa to refuel and see what was what. So we sat on the tarmac unmoving for four hours, almost as long as the flight would have been. I could not leave the aircraft because everyone had been through customs in Calgary, and had not cell phone to call you or anything! Wah.
Got into NYC at almost 1:00 in the morning. Gong back there tomorrow, and home on Saturday. If the planes and weather cooperate. Tschuss.