Plants

Apr. 21st, 2007 04:40 pm
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[personal profile] fivemack
So far this spring, I've planted


  • The far end of the middle main bed with Assorted Orange Seeds

  • The left near bed with Assorted Mediterranean Seeds

  • Five geraniums in the little bed by the shed where the bricks are missing from the path

  • Two broad-bean rows in the long rectangular bed along the shed

  • Two carrot rows and a fractal-broccoli row in the far end of the left main bed

  • A large purple mutant geranium at the near end of the left main bed

  • A potato row, sprouting enthusiastically already, all of the right main bed

  • Ten marigolds and two fractal-broccoli rows in the near end of the middle main bed

  • The near right-hand wilderness with grass seed

  • Ladybird-attracting sage, mint and thyme around the bottom of the aphid-ridden rosebush

  • Two blue flowers and a fancy nasturtium at the front of the right near bed



I've still got a bag of lobelia seed, a bag of dahlia seed, and half a bag of broad-bean seed in case the first half-bag is devoured by squirrels. My Google history includes 'getting rid of squirrels', 'squirrel poison', 'humane squirrel trap' and 'tasty squirrel recipes', though I have taken no actual action yet.

By Summer, assuming that I successfully add 'water everything' (which now takes three cans-full) to my daily routine, this should be looking very much like a garden. Truly, the gastropods of Cambridgeshire have a series of glorious and varied meals in store for them.

Today I dug up a three-foot length of cast-iron guttering, and the bolt from a door. Last week I dug up half the bottom left jaw of a set of false teeth. Last month I dug up a clothes-drying rack. Last year I dug up a whole Hoover cylinder vacuum cleaner. I'm not altogether sure why these things are buried in my back garden.

Date: 2007-04-21 03:57 pm (UTC)
darcydodo: (in and out of the garden (by sara midda))
From: [personal profile] darcydodo
Today I dug up...

I only used to get silverware and pottery fragments out of our garden. Your soil is much more prolific, clearly!

Date: 2007-04-21 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aendr.livejournal.com
At least the teeth were false.

I think some prior occupant must have been planning for future archaeologists, and you're messing with their plans. Either that or they were hoping that they could make a mint by selling new Hoovers and clothes racks.

Date: 2007-04-21 04:41 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Wow, that sounds energetic. Is that orange seeds, orange seeds or orange seeds?

So far I've dug random holes, discovered the soil is made of solid-baked clay, and planted some tomatoes in pots.

Louisa

Date: 2007-04-21 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
They're seeds from a packet of 'assorted orange flowers'. They're mostly a sort of seed-coloured shade of brown.

When in hole...

Date: 2007-04-21 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Marian says, "stop digging! you'll find the body next, and then you'll be in trouble."

Date: 2007-04-22 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rezendi.livejournal.com
My Google history includes 'getting rid of squirrels', 'squirrel poison', 'humane squirrel trap' and 'tasty squirrel recipes'

I am so not sending you a copy of my squirrel book.

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