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SPRING! Plants'n'Parades Post
Feb. 11th, 2008 01:05 pmThis weekend Juggler and I went to West Coast Seeds on his motorcycle. It was awesome-- first getting leathered up (I have lost a lot of hip and thigh lately) and the ride out across farmland out to Delta (which was so much fun), then spending too much money on seeds (of course), and finally the ride back, dinner and talking plants.
I also went to the Chinese New Years' parade, dressed up and painted my face in red and black, and went blonde fahsion-model-alien for the day. I got to the parade early for once, got great seats across from Sun Yat Sen gardens, watched until the rain and the fucking irritating crowd (well, not the crowd, just the people who believe that a camera in hand makes it acceptable to wait in the back till the parade comes, then stand in front of the first row and run into the street to take pictures for the whole thing) drove us to Kat and Doug's where a bunch of people played the ever-so-fascinating game Rock Band and we rummaged through the pile of give-away stuff their recent move has occasioned.
Watching cooperative games is a hobby for me. Rock Band sorta breaks my mind because, if you had told me ten-twelve years ago that, what were people doing then around me, FF7 and Tomb Raider, would be replaced by people singing and playing guitar in the livingroom, I'd have been like, yeah, let's just see you get people to do that in public. I think it makes me happy.
But now on to the really important part of this post.
I also found all the seeds I was going to bring to Kelowna last year and lost last-minute, so now I have A LOT of seeds, with two duplicates. I need to get some of these things out there real soon now so they can come up in their own time. I only ever have patience int he garden, you know? The list is as follows (I still want to get a couple of things at Seedy Saturday, I need to swap with Juggler for some tomato seeds, and I need to see what Ellen has, but this is a start with year and source:
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Sorry to get this out so late, Wik, I know you wanted the info a month or two ago but I just got it now.
I was gonna catalogue them (planting date? Type?) but are peas a leaf crop or a fruit crop? Beets are root or leaves? Lettuce is early or late? Now that I go through the list I think Juggler may have ended up with a packet or two of mine, a lettuce f'rinstance.
I'd like some more assorted greens, I NEED magenta spreen (aka MAGENTA LAMB'S QUARTERS), I need Sungold tomatoes, pepperonici peppers, a summer squash or two, maybe some green beans, stuff like that. I think I'm set till late March though. I wouldn't mind trying Kootenai tomato, come to think of it. Juggler has Atomic Red carrots, I'm hoping he can grow some for me, I don't have carrot soil-- though maybe in a planter box? Need summer savoury & tarragon & thyme & oregano.
The living situation will be resolved one way or the other by May 1st, so in June the tomatoes will either go outdoors in pots in a new place or outdoors in the garden here (though I may do many potted things on my deck this year, it's sunnier than the garden and the garden isn't that huge)
So picture a girl with fluffy puppy slippers sitting in the livingroom by a window past which rain sifts ceaselessly, grinning to herself and singing along loudly to 3am by Matchbox Twenty and The Wanderer by U2 and Johnny Cash cause no one else is home, and compulsively cataloguing all her seeds online while ignoring the waiting laundry. Can ya see me? Hi guys!
I also went to the Chinese New Years' parade, dressed up and painted my face in red and black, and went blonde fahsion-model-alien for the day. I got to the parade early for once, got great seats across from Sun Yat Sen gardens, watched until the rain and the fucking irritating crowd (well, not the crowd, just the people who believe that a camera in hand makes it acceptable to wait in the back till the parade comes, then stand in front of the first row and run into the street to take pictures for the whole thing) drove us to Kat and Doug's where a bunch of people played the ever-so-fascinating game Rock Band and we rummaged through the pile of give-away stuff their recent move has occasioned.
Watching cooperative games is a hobby for me. Rock Band sorta breaks my mind because, if you had told me ten-twelve years ago that, what were people doing then around me, FF7 and Tomb Raider, would be replaced by people singing and playing guitar in the livingroom, I'd have been like, yeah, let's just see you get people to do that in public. I think it makes me happy.
But now on to the really important part of this post.
I also found all the seeds I was going to bring to Kelowna last year and lost last-minute, so now I have A LOT of seeds, with two duplicates. I need to get some of these things out there real soon now so they can come up in their own time. I only ever have patience int he garden, you know? The list is as follows (I still want to get a couple of things at Seedy Saturday, I need to swap with Juggler for some tomato seeds, and I need to see what Ellen has, but this is a start with year and source:
( Read more... )
Sorry to get this out so late, Wik, I know you wanted the info a month or two ago but I just got it now.
I was gonna catalogue them (planting date? Type?) but are peas a leaf crop or a fruit crop? Beets are root or leaves? Lettuce is early or late? Now that I go through the list I think Juggler may have ended up with a packet or two of mine, a lettuce f'rinstance.
I'd like some more assorted greens, I NEED magenta spreen (aka MAGENTA LAMB'S QUARTERS), I need Sungold tomatoes, pepperonici peppers, a summer squash or two, maybe some green beans, stuff like that. I think I'm set till late March though. I wouldn't mind trying Kootenai tomato, come to think of it. Juggler has Atomic Red carrots, I'm hoping he can grow some for me, I don't have carrot soil-- though maybe in a planter box? Need summer savoury & tarragon & thyme & oregano.
The living situation will be resolved one way or the other by May 1st, so in June the tomatoes will either go outdoors in pots in a new place or outdoors in the garden here (though I may do many potted things on my deck this year, it's sunnier than the garden and the garden isn't that huge)
So picture a girl with fluffy puppy slippers sitting in the livingroom by a window past which rain sifts ceaselessly, grinning to herself and singing along loudly to 3am by Matchbox Twenty and The Wanderer by U2 and Johnny Cash cause no one else is home, and compulsively cataloguing all her seeds online while ignoring the waiting laundry. Can ya see me? Hi guys!
