Yummy Garden Goodness
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greenstormAha! Everything is in the ground in the garden except my attar of roses geranium. Everything. So two days ago, in went, in order from left to right: Tigress, Tropical Sunset, unknown mauve, Gold Medal, and Moonshadow. Next day, between them, in went: daylily, moonbeam coreopsis. In between the next ones are the peonies that I moved from the side of the house. Next rank, next to the path, are minis: Holy Toledo, Lavender Crystals, Amber Sunset, and Mystery Mauve. Another Mystery Mauve is down the way a little with the wintergreen.
I planted up another bed of radishes (June 17/03) next to the stir-fry mix, which is sprouting nicely. The other radishes are working on their second true leaves so I figured it was about time. The cotoneaster is in the ground in the veggie garden to grow a bit for bonsai.
I moved some of those annoying bulbs from around the peonies, which I shall inaccurately refer to as 'Flame Lilies' until I figure out their real name. They're actually corms or bulbs and not rhizomes, which surprised me. The ones I moved look like they're going to flower now even though they're suffering from severe root-chop (I was trying to get at the peonies, not the lilies, since there are lots of the latter all over the place).
I wonder what colour the peonies will be? They're in awful shape from being strangled by the lilies and in the shade both. Someone had dumped a couple of inches of fireplace ashes over the soil too. But! They'll make it, no problem.
Oh! Also planted: Asao clematis and Warm Welcome minirose climber. They're on the fence in the back garden drawing that yellow/orange/purple colour scheme back into the corner by the shed.
No Arctic Kiwis acquired, may need to wait until next year. Eggplant and passiflora both doing poorly, I'm a little worried. That soil may be deficient. The poppy, which has been growing there for awhile, is chlorotic. There are mottled yellowish patches between the veins and the margins are yellow rather than green. Iron deficiency? Zinc or manganese deficiency? Acid soil which prevents uptake of that sort of thing? Just stress? I really need to do PH testing over there. The sunflowers look fine...
Other stuff: the SO got this game, Gauntlet, and a whole bunch of people hung around playing it last night. Luckily the Juggler (this sounds awful) was sickish and so I got to sneak off into the other room and talk with him. I kind of like having people to sneak off with who don't miss the social stuff. I wonder if it was just the being sick, or if I have a true partner in 'YE-GODS-GET-THEM-ALL-OFF-ME!'?
Went out with the SO and the Other Woman together/alone (in that three-person constellation) for the first time the other day. It put her a little on edge because he and I are definitely much less coupley in public than the Juggler and I, and I think she was worried that she was causing dissonance when really it's just the way we are. Had won ton soup (yay!) which I've been craving for a bit.
Poly is great because at least the SO shares my eating preferences. The rest of y'al just suck. ;)
I need to come up with something that takes shade for the side garden. I want to underplant it with wintergreen. It's next to a hydrangea...
I'm looking forward to going out biking with the Juggler. I'm not terribly certain of my ability, certainly not in traffic, so I'm hoping I pick it up fast. He said something about very early am biking, two in the morningish, and that would really be lovely -- but I need to be able to deal with that before I can go. Bah! I hate being incompetent.
I'm also looking forward to the Folk Fest and the Vanpoly retreat, both of which are lazily coming up here. I'm looking less forward to finding a source of income, which I'm going to have to do sooner or later, here. Not looking forward to that at all. Any advice?
Other than that the weather's been great, nice and variable so some days it's warm and some it's not. The garden likes that, I like that, I wish it would rain a little more and a little warmer, though. I really like warm rains.
I'm settling into the house enough that I'm beginning to know where things are. I'm glad of that skill and I need to keep picking up here to keep it up. I need to come to some sort of arrangement re: doing laundry here.
Oh, bah! The SO ran a D&D game the other night, while I was here, at home. I get to go home and wash dishes. I hope he rinsed them. I keep forgetting about that and really, I'm not looking forward to it at all.
Any more random snippets? Not really. Read a whole bunch of book intros and finally settled on The Myth of Monogamy to read, which is a lot less soapboxish so far than the name would imply -- it's mostly a biological study of sexual vs. social mating habits, and it's well-written in lively language. Nice, after that Pern thing that I still haven't finished.
Need to garden in the front. And... that's about it, really. Happy, healthy, and in the process of life. Take care f'r now.
I planted up another bed of radishes (June 17/03) next to the stir-fry mix, which is sprouting nicely. The other radishes are working on their second true leaves so I figured it was about time. The cotoneaster is in the ground in the veggie garden to grow a bit for bonsai.
I moved some of those annoying bulbs from around the peonies, which I shall inaccurately refer to as 'Flame Lilies' until I figure out their real name. They're actually corms or bulbs and not rhizomes, which surprised me. The ones I moved look like they're going to flower now even though they're suffering from severe root-chop (I was trying to get at the peonies, not the lilies, since there are lots of the latter all over the place).
I wonder what colour the peonies will be? They're in awful shape from being strangled by the lilies and in the shade both. Someone had dumped a couple of inches of fireplace ashes over the soil too. But! They'll make it, no problem.
Oh! Also planted: Asao clematis and Warm Welcome minirose climber. They're on the fence in the back garden drawing that yellow/orange/purple colour scheme back into the corner by the shed.
No Arctic Kiwis acquired, may need to wait until next year. Eggplant and passiflora both doing poorly, I'm a little worried. That soil may be deficient. The poppy, which has been growing there for awhile, is chlorotic. There are mottled yellowish patches between the veins and the margins are yellow rather than green. Iron deficiency? Zinc or manganese deficiency? Acid soil which prevents uptake of that sort of thing? Just stress? I really need to do PH testing over there. The sunflowers look fine...
Other stuff: the SO got this game, Gauntlet, and a whole bunch of people hung around playing it last night. Luckily the Juggler (this sounds awful) was sickish and so I got to sneak off into the other room and talk with him. I kind of like having people to sneak off with who don't miss the social stuff. I wonder if it was just the being sick, or if I have a true partner in 'YE-GODS-GET-THEM-ALL-OFF-ME!'?
Went out with the SO and the Other Woman together/alone (in that three-person constellation) for the first time the other day. It put her a little on edge because he and I are definitely much less coupley in public than the Juggler and I, and I think she was worried that she was causing dissonance when really it's just the way we are. Had won ton soup (yay!) which I've been craving for a bit.
Poly is great because at least the SO shares my eating preferences. The rest of y'al just suck. ;)
I need to come up with something that takes shade for the side garden. I want to underplant it with wintergreen. It's next to a hydrangea...
I'm looking forward to going out biking with the Juggler. I'm not terribly certain of my ability, certainly not in traffic, so I'm hoping I pick it up fast. He said something about very early am biking, two in the morningish, and that would really be lovely -- but I need to be able to deal with that before I can go. Bah! I hate being incompetent.
I'm also looking forward to the Folk Fest and the Vanpoly retreat, both of which are lazily coming up here. I'm looking less forward to finding a source of income, which I'm going to have to do sooner or later, here. Not looking forward to that at all. Any advice?
Other than that the weather's been great, nice and variable so some days it's warm and some it's not. The garden likes that, I like that, I wish it would rain a little more and a little warmer, though. I really like warm rains.
I'm settling into the house enough that I'm beginning to know where things are. I'm glad of that skill and I need to keep picking up here to keep it up. I need to come to some sort of arrangement re: doing laundry here.
Oh, bah! The SO ran a D&D game the other night, while I was here, at home. I get to go home and wash dishes. I hope he rinsed them. I keep forgetting about that and really, I'm not looking forward to it at all.
Any more random snippets? Not really. Read a whole bunch of book intros and finally settled on The Myth of Monogamy to read, which is a lot less soapboxish so far than the name would imply -- it's mostly a biological study of sexual vs. social mating habits, and it's well-written in lively language. Nice, after that Pern thing that I still haven't finished.
Need to garden in the front. And... that's about it, really. Happy, healthy, and in the process of life. Take care f'r now.
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Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-17 11:55 pm (UTC)Re: Wrong Festival :)
Date: 2003-06-18 12:06 am (UTC)