Raining Really Hard...
...right now...so hard, it's keeping me up.
So I want to move container plants up against the house, but I'm feeling lazy. It's supposed to downpour through 9am or something.
I'm also having second thoughts about having too much variety in the garden. This is the largest variety I've ever tried. Plus the attempt to take advantage of companion planting with bio-intensive planting. Yeah, it's all logical. But this hobby is making me "think" quite a bit.
I have herbs like parsley and chives in bed #1 because I have tomatoes, broccoli and carrots in there. When the broccoli, lettuce and radishes are done, I was planning on some beans and cukes next. Well, I find out that cucurbits don't like strong scented plants, so much for the cukes. Blah. I guess more carrots and spinach. We like to eat those. And you need a lot of spinach to cook with anyway. Oh, bush beans can work too, as well as more salad greens. Hmm, what other short season veggies we could do that we eat?
Heh. Some time in JHS, (Le Conte, not Lincoln) my counselor had me take some standardized test, like a Myers-Briggs thing. It was to help determine my aptitude for career selection. My silly results came up with agriculture. I couldn't believe it. I was upset, it wasn't possible. Science. I had to go into something more science or technology related. I wound up choosing mechanical engineering, then transferred to art, then film studies (which was really an english literature degree). So here I am today (more than 20 years post-aptitude exam, wow), obsessing about gardening, reading about bio-intensive farming as developed by the French, learning about companion planting, monitoring my soil and its Ph balance, brewing fish tea for plant food, adjusting soil mixes for containers, beds and seed starting...
Sigh. That darn aptitude test may have been right. (I like to tell myself it's just my obsessive compulsive personality trait focusing on gardening.) No, it didn't occur to me that agriculture is a science. I was a teen and I just plain didn't think much of agriculture. :/
So I want to move container plants up against the house, but I'm feeling lazy. It's supposed to downpour through 9am or something.
I'm also having second thoughts about having too much variety in the garden. This is the largest variety I've ever tried. Plus the attempt to take advantage of companion planting with bio-intensive planting. Yeah, it's all logical. But this hobby is making me "think" quite a bit.
I have herbs like parsley and chives in bed #1 because I have tomatoes, broccoli and carrots in there. When the broccoli, lettuce and radishes are done, I was planning on some beans and cukes next. Well, I find out that cucurbits don't like strong scented plants, so much for the cukes. Blah. I guess more carrots and spinach. We like to eat those. And you need a lot of spinach to cook with anyway. Oh, bush beans can work too, as well as more salad greens. Hmm, what other short season veggies we could do that we eat?
Heh. Some time in JHS, (Le Conte, not Lincoln) my counselor had me take some standardized test, like a Myers-Briggs thing. It was to help determine my aptitude for career selection. My silly results came up with agriculture. I couldn't believe it. I was upset, it wasn't possible. Science. I had to go into something more science or technology related. I wound up choosing mechanical engineering, then transferred to art, then film studies (which was really an english literature degree). So here I am today (more than 20 years post-aptitude exam, wow), obsessing about gardening, reading about bio-intensive farming as developed by the French, learning about companion planting, monitoring my soil and its Ph balance, brewing fish tea for plant food, adjusting soil mixes for containers, beds and seed starting...
Sigh. That darn aptitude test may have been right. (I like to tell myself it's just my obsessive compulsive personality trait focusing on gardening.) No, it didn't occur to me that agriculture is a science. I was a teen and I just plain didn't think much of agriculture. :/