overdue

If i only had taken the photos like i meant to to help explain the kind of work a Man needs to do to a man garden in the off season to get ready for the gardening season i could really make some strong points. It didn't happen... but on the bright side for the past 2 weeks as Vancouver has been under Monsoon alert and all the other chuckle heads have been whining about the weather like simpleton humans often do I have been skipping around thinking about my tender Spinach, lettuce, pea, broccoli, potato, garlic and celery plants that are just loving the moisture. i actually had a bit of garden celery in a chicken noodle soup i made today.

As any fine erratic individual would do, i have made a few mistakes already, but nothing that can't be overcome with some hard focus weeding and delicate manure placement. as usual i just happened to be so ahead of the curve i planted some of my garden before the manure showed up... it's all good... lets just say my garden is not totally level at this point in time... i have a lettuce patch and a spinach area that will have to give way to a bean crop in a month or so and at that time i will also harvest the naturally occurring potatoes and do a soil refresh. i have always found life works well when done in stages.

As a parent in the park with 3 children i find the patented technique termed "Robertson region gardening" is good for short bursts and long term success. That said i think my spinach seeds are a bit old as the germination percentage was not where i like it to be... remember to use good seeds and know that i just punched myself in the face for good measure. Man gardeners can't be making rookie mistakes like that... it's just totally unacceptable. garden is growing life and it's success is through managing time... the time of the growing season... if you waste that time on poor seeds you then become what we call "an hammerhead".

Speaking of hammerheads... you see there are some folks in the garden who's plots have basically become "weed infested lawns" and the plan that it looks like they are rolling with is to just throw manure on the grass and dandelions and other weeds, as if to cover them up so that the will not have to look at their annoyingness. The point being that the grass and weeds will love that... it will help them grow stronger and more vigorous... anybody following me?

I'm punching myself in the face because my spinach plants are 70% on the seeds and other people are throwing manure onto grass and calling it a garden.

But there is one... a new one... a woman... who prepared her soil this year and dug out a rock the size of a medium sized dog (no small feat)... she dug 3 feet down and showed up with a 1 ton landscaping truck and a mountain of prime soil. She was sifting rocks and removing every trace of weed root from her soil... This woman will give me a run for the money. You can see when she is on task the task gets bigger the more she explores it, rather than the average human sissy response of finding out the job is bigger than you thought it was even though you weren't thinking... so you just bail on it.

Well she is behind me this year because of this preparation (that i did a few years ago) and i threw weedkiller in her plot just to make sure... can't have some upstart rookie trying to show me up in her first year. OK that was a joke... i would never throw weedkiller in anybodies vegetable garden... that would be plain pathological and wrong on every level imaginable. Weedkiller is for stupid people who think that having a green manicured lawn is a symbol of success and that the buck stops there and are either unaware or just don't care that the water cycle... known as the hydrologic cycle will carry that weedkiller through all components of our living environment... fucking various essential lifeforms as they go. I know i Know... I'm an ass hole... the economy is the only important thing and if people are out there buying weedkiller than they are out there stimulating the economy... yadda yadda yadda.

I think i have derailed this blog for now.

No we need to leave on goodwill... Our new woMan gardener had a massive supply of good rocks and i happened to remember that the city crew that look after the park are as useless as thistle underwear so i built a trench around the backside of my garden ( eliminate weeds from attacking garden, and eliminate the temptation for bonehead city crew workers to kill all my pea plants with a weed eater in a sloppy effort to get those weeds). So i dug the trench and eliminated all the weed roots and then filled in the trench with all the rocks from the woMan garden. A perfect working example of Symbiosis... Symbiosis is a biological term to describe the mutualistic relationship between organisms. In our case we have woMan who did a ton of work and created a pile of rocks she needed to get rid of... and we have Man who did a pile of work and needed some rocks as "fill"... In the end everything is done and everybody is happy... an no politician was involved.