Sacred Gardening
The radishes were just as good Wednesday and Thursday as they were the other day. Although I think I need to give the remaining plants a few more days before I pull them. There only seem to be little ones left as I've already eaten the big ones! The lettuce should be ready in another week. Hopefully the beans and the cucumbers will be ready by the end of the month. Everything else should hit harvest time around July.
Other than my early trouble with thieving critters this container gardening thing has been pretty easy. I would love to have a large, proper garden in the yard but I'm not sure my yard is suited for that. It slopes gently on one side, not so gently on the other, towards the back of the property. The only flat part at the far back by the fence doesn't have very good drainage. I can see the sharply sloping side replaced with terraces for a garden, complete with rock walls and steps. What I can't see is me doing the work, hiring a landscaper to do it, or how to promote it as positive feature whenever I go to sell the house.
The flower beds are in decent shape. They need weeding again and I really want to dig out those crappy yuccas on the south side of the house. Several of the larger bushes need trimming back already due to all the rain we had this spring. All of which I should do this weekend before it gets really hot again. My lazy ass, however, would rather sit inside or out on the back porch and finish Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. I finally made it past the midway point last night and I'm determined to finish the last 400 pages this weekend.
Right. I need to finish the code I'm working on so I don't feel like such a slacker. Today is a gym day so there is an hour of cardio in my near future. The grocery shopping will have to wait until tomorrow or Sunday cause I'm probably going to be pretty stinky when I leave the gym and once I get home I tend not to want to go back out again.
Book reviews of Shadows Over Baker Street and Paper Cities, both anthologies, will be posted tomorrow, I promise!
Other than my early trouble with thieving critters this container gardening thing has been pretty easy. I would love to have a large, proper garden in the yard but I'm not sure my yard is suited for that. It slopes gently on one side, not so gently on the other, towards the back of the property. The only flat part at the far back by the fence doesn't have very good drainage. I can see the sharply sloping side replaced with terraces for a garden, complete with rock walls and steps. What I can't see is me doing the work, hiring a landscaper to do it, or how to promote it as positive feature whenever I go to sell the house.
The flower beds are in decent shape. They need weeding again and I really want to dig out those crappy yuccas on the south side of the house. Several of the larger bushes need trimming back already due to all the rain we had this spring. All of which I should do this weekend before it gets really hot again. My lazy ass, however, would rather sit inside or out on the back porch and finish Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. I finally made it past the midway point last night and I'm determined to finish the last 400 pages this weekend.
Right. I need to finish the code I'm working on so I don't feel like such a slacker. Today is a gym day so there is an hour of cardio in my near future. The grocery shopping will have to wait until tomorrow or Sunday cause I'm probably going to be pretty stinky when I leave the gym and once I get home I tend not to want to go back out again.
Book reviews of Shadows Over Baker Street and Paper Cities, both anthologies, will be posted tomorrow, I promise!