FarmerGirl Report: Musings on Intention Vs. Expectation and the potential for a bit o mindless mayem

[bittibuddha]

Three Things:

Three Things:
1. Gardening teaches you the difference between having an intention and having an expecation.
2. AFOG = Another F^&*in' Opportunity for Growth
3. Plot8 Update

Comments

[larmer]

Between the time the seed goes into the soil and when I'm biting into my first homegrown tomato sandwich sometime in June, anything can happen.

I think that reality of agriculture is lost on our world of industrial food. If you garden fails you will not starve, go hungry or even go without tomatoes. There is the grocery store. Our forefathers lived with the reality as recent as the dustbowl of the 1930s that an agricultural failure could lead to ruin and even death. I have a theory that his living at the edge caused agrarian society to be conservative. So if everyone stays in their role and does their job then we will not starve. The person sticking out risks the whole thing and must be dealt with. (a simple theory I know but it makes me feel less harsh of our forebears who expected everyone to tow the line).

[camperamy]

Dontcha just love the adventure and the anticipation of it all?
Love you - thanks for sharing this!

[queenmaggie]

I just don't feel capable of that level of hard work anymore. The physicality of gardening defeats me, but I remember when I could do it, and I actually see my son exploring the way I used to, in his little plot in MD. My other son, in NYC says he's been talking with his roommates, and was surprised that everyone's mother didn't grow vegetables to eat, and have a compost pile, and keep herbs on the deck...
Your reports from your plot make me happy.

[bittibuddha]

Thank you Anne. I am very aware there are many folks who can no longer put this much physical exertion into gardening (or other activities they once enjoyed) so feel it both a privilege and something of an honor to be able to do so, for however long it lasts. That's also why I tend to ramble on, hoping to give back a little bit of vicarious thrill to the folks who have given me so much through their stories.

[dawntreader90]

Dude. I'm not serene enough to do that shit THREE times...

THIS. :) even happy, smiling, peacey people get the HULK SMASH feeling after a certain point. i'm glad today was not that day.

[bittibuddha]

heee! its part of my zen training, dontcha know ;-)

[tchwrtr]

Love the tree. Is it an oak? The branches look like oak.

Tonight my onion set will go in that ground. And I might have to thin the radishes. Woo!

[bittibuddha]

I tried radishes last year but dont think I thinned them enough to let them grow to their full size. they never got much bigger than the first joint of my thumb, though they were very radishy... that was when I discovered I didn't really LIKE eating radishes, despite how cute they were. :)