(no subject)
i have seeded tomatoes twice now and had no takers. the first lot i seeded were inside in a sunny window and were heirloom tomatoes. fail. the second lot are outside on a hot sunny porch and are brand new store bought seeds, some organic, some just cheap ones. fail. good job i'd bought a few baby tom plants or i'd have none at all. i also had bad luck with pumpkins and butternut squash. a couple took but that was it. oh, and the violas did not sprout, either. everything else did. yesterday i dug a new bed for all the baby watermelon plants i've got (they all sprouted!) this isn't a great area for growing watermelon, however, so we'll have to see how they do. i bought some more straw and mulched the rapidly growing potatoes again. i do hope this works! the plants look really healthy thus far, nice and big and strong, and they look happy completely surrounded by deep straw, so *fingers crossed*.
the key is food. plants need lots of food in order to be food. i've been putting a lot of effort into these beds to make sure they're full of lovely organic matter, so hopefully they'll continue to do as good as they seem to be thus far. we are at least eating greens out of the garden, which is frikken cool. between the lettuce beds and the greens beds (kale, chard, broccoli, turnip) we've been eating out of the garden for a while now. at least i know i can grow green stuff! now to see if i can get anything else!
i hate driving around looking at everyone else's gardens. right now it's so very obvious that they all feed their gardens with petrochemicals. the fields and beds are all tilled and raked and ready to be seeded/planted. barren red earth, void of any life whatsoever. give it a month, and the land will be full of lush greenness, fooling you into thinking it's life and health. but it's not. it's all fake. identical food-replicas growing in oil. it's so sad. the earth wants to be filled with lush greenness, but when it's dead it can't. and all the land, at least the cultivated land, is dead. barren. only growing green stuff because of all the carefully manufactured and genetically altered pellets put in the ground with the seed. anyone can take a patch of barren, lifeless land and grow stuff that way. but as the land is dead, so too shall we be. eating oil and plastic and test tube creations.
give me wilderness!! give me dandelions and chickweed and worms!! give me dark brown dirt full of life and love and health. the foundation of our very lives is the earth beneath our feet. when was the last time you went barefoot in the early morning dew, studying the colour and substance of the earth beneath your feet?
the key is food. plants need lots of food in order to be food. i've been putting a lot of effort into these beds to make sure they're full of lovely organic matter, so hopefully they'll continue to do as good as they seem to be thus far. we are at least eating greens out of the garden, which is frikken cool. between the lettuce beds and the greens beds (kale, chard, broccoli, turnip) we've been eating out of the garden for a while now. at least i know i can grow green stuff! now to see if i can get anything else!
i hate driving around looking at everyone else's gardens. right now it's so very obvious that they all feed their gardens with petrochemicals. the fields and beds are all tilled and raked and ready to be seeded/planted. barren red earth, void of any life whatsoever. give it a month, and the land will be full of lush greenness, fooling you into thinking it's life and health. but it's not. it's all fake. identical food-replicas growing in oil. it's so sad. the earth wants to be filled with lush greenness, but when it's dead it can't. and all the land, at least the cultivated land, is dead. barren. only growing green stuff because of all the carefully manufactured and genetically altered pellets put in the ground with the seed. anyone can take a patch of barren, lifeless land and grow stuff that way. but as the land is dead, so too shall we be. eating oil and plastic and test tube creations.
give me wilderness!! give me dandelions and chickweed and worms!! give me dark brown dirt full of life and love and health. the foundation of our very lives is the earth beneath our feet. when was the last time you went barefoot in the early morning dew, studying the colour and substance of the earth beneath your feet?