The beauty of growing plants is that once you plant them, they grow. It's pretty simple.. it's like a religion that actually does what it states what it will do. Keep on the steady work and let things that are meant to happen happen. For sure you are the guardian, although i like the term "harvester"... it keeps you lower on the pole so you don't start getting some "God complex". It's the plants that are holy and they reward the harvester with a bounty if the harvester can keep his head out of his ass and do the damn steady work.
The peas will need something to climb on now as they are up and reaching to the sky... as the harvester it is my job to provide a lattice of sorts that will give the peas ample support to grow large and produce mightily. The big thing you need to make sure of now is that you don't provide some candy ass structure that will grow weak when the peas grow heavy and blow over in some wind leaving you high and dry during the peak harvest period. Think about how unacceptable that would be, and make sure it doesn't happen... OK. Also if you haven't planted peas yet then give yourself a punch in the nose... don't let up either.
I have some pretty good broccoli going at the community garden... i am a little bit shy to put it in the backyard after what happened last year. I have yet to determine how to protect broccoli from the adopted family of squirrels that live next door, as they have for 4 generations, and their endless supply of peanuts. Most of my broccoli last year got dug up, sacrificed as peanut markers... but one actually got eaten totally. I know that because it got chewed down to a stump and then the stump got eaten... why not? Broccoli stalks are good eating. As a scientist i am not completely sure what animal ate the broccoli, but I'm willing to pin it on a squirrel... because i fucking hate squirrels... I hate them... hate hate hate hate hate! Squirrels are the re-incarnation of the devil... they look kind of cute to people with small brains and undeveloped logic skills, so people give them things and are repaid with unpleasant repercussions.
How can somebody who harbors and feeds squirrels come out with the slug poison, herbicides and pesticides? It's only because they have the ear of the devil telling them to kill and destroy other things for other reasons but yet look past the clear and omnipresent fuckery that the squirrel itself is dealing.
OK enough about the squirrels, we are dealing better with that menace this year, and as i say... any energy spent thinking about a squirrel is bad energy, and gardens need good energy.
It's been an interesting year with respect to plants that survived over winter... for example my leeks. Being a soup man i figured it was time to have access to a king hell supply of leeks last year so i planted a few rows to see what might happen. Now obviously most of them were dug up for peanuts, but of the few that survived nothing really happened... until this spring. We have some pretty major leeks kicking in... they might actually look like big leeks you see in a store one day if they don't get dug up for a peanut. I also stated seedling leeks in the house and have transported them to the community garden... they are alive and growing as of now. Part of me wonders if the heavy clay soil i had at the house last year and the later start due to moving, the garden construction and the lack of education of the unfavourable rodent micro-environment i was living in had any effect on leek production. I realize not all humans mill about the earth puzzling over their problems producing enough leeks to make good soups all year round, but i say it's a good problem to solve.
The kale, chard and celery have gone on similar runs this spring. In fact we had multiple servings of kale this spring from the garden, and the celery is resembling large celery stalks one might find in a store as well. I mean i use the celery all year long and just cut some as i need it for soups, sauces or other savoury fried delicacies. I would say we shall be eating chard pretty soon as well. All of these plants are large enough to survive rodent holes around their root systems... It's clearly not good for them, but it is not fatal.
Obviously the garlic is on pace as well... clearly any man worth his salt has his own private line of garlic. I know where mine came from... it gives the culinary artist a distinct advantage... you see nobody can truly recreate what you did because they don't have access to the lineage of garlic that belongs as a part of your functional kitchen. Garlic is almost the easiest thing to grow... put a clove in the ground in the fall and next year get a bulb... break some of those up and replant and power your kitchen for the year on the rest. Give me one bulb of fine garlic and in a few years i never have to buy garlic again. I mean obviously if you can avoid buying things that's good on a great number of levels... the greatest being: seeing that there is another way. Do not underestimate this... a great number of people on this planet can only see the way they have been told... People are told to buy things wrapped in plastic and to throw the plastic in the garbage and all will be good.
There is always another way in life, sure it might take a bit of time and effort but it makes the reward all the more delicious. That's where the "religious" angle to gardening lays a pretty heavy trip... be good to something and it will be good to you... let things be and they will help you to be... foster growth and that growth will foster you... share your bounty with your brothers.
This is a squirrel hole dug through chicken wire over a planter box... a innocent young heirloom purple carrot plant was murdered as a result of this terrorist squirrel. A child has been robbed of precious co-enzymes that help enable sight. As the prophet Akira once said "you have to see everything" when a terrorist squirrel robs a child of their ability to see in a time when the world needs it's youth to see clearly we need some serious thought. There are squirrel recipes that call for celery... and there is a saying we used in Canada... it had to do with bears. It goes, a fed bear is a dead bear. If you feed a bear the bear will become accustomed to being fed and become a nuisance and since it could kill a human easily humans decide to kill the bear before it kills a human. Now a squirrel has little chance of killing a human beyond the stroke or backfiring boobie trap it might enable, but a nuisance is a nuisance. A squirrel that buries natural chestnuts doesn't kill seedlings in the spring because there are no fucking chestnuts to bury in the spring... only a lunatic gives squirrels things to bury in the spring. Don't be one of those.
The peas will need something to climb on now as they are up and reaching to the sky... as the harvester it is my job to provide a lattice of sorts that will give the peas ample support to grow large and produce mightily. The big thing you need to make sure of now is that you don't provide some candy ass structure that will grow weak when the peas grow heavy and blow over in some wind leaving you high and dry during the peak harvest period. Think about how unacceptable that would be, and make sure it doesn't happen... OK. Also if you haven't planted peas yet then give yourself a punch in the nose... don't let up either.
I have some pretty good broccoli going at the community garden... i am a little bit shy to put it in the backyard after what happened last year. I have yet to determine how to protect broccoli from the adopted family of squirrels that live next door, as they have for 4 generations, and their endless supply of peanuts. Most of my broccoli last year got dug up, sacrificed as peanut markers... but one actually got eaten totally. I know that because it got chewed down to a stump and then the stump got eaten... why not? Broccoli stalks are good eating. As a scientist i am not completely sure what animal ate the broccoli, but I'm willing to pin it on a squirrel... because i fucking hate squirrels... I hate them... hate hate hate hate hate! Squirrels are the re-incarnation of the devil... they look kind of cute to people with small brains and undeveloped logic skills, so people give them things and are repaid with unpleasant repercussions.
How can somebody who harbors and feeds squirrels come out with the slug poison, herbicides and pesticides? It's only because they have the ear of the devil telling them to kill and destroy other things for other reasons but yet look past the clear and omnipresent fuckery that the squirrel itself is dealing.
OK enough about the squirrels, we are dealing better with that menace this year, and as i say... any energy spent thinking about a squirrel is bad energy, and gardens need good energy.
It's been an interesting year with respect to plants that survived over winter... for example my leeks. Being a soup man i figured it was time to have access to a king hell supply of leeks last year so i planted a few rows to see what might happen. Now obviously most of them were dug up for peanuts, but of the few that survived nothing really happened... until this spring. We have some pretty major leeks kicking in... they might actually look like big leeks you see in a store one day if they don't get dug up for a peanut. I also stated seedling leeks in the house and have transported them to the community garden... they are alive and growing as of now. Part of me wonders if the heavy clay soil i had at the house last year and the later start due to moving, the garden construction and the lack of education of the unfavourable rodent micro-environment i was living in had any effect on leek production. I realize not all humans mill about the earth puzzling over their problems producing enough leeks to make good soups all year round, but i say it's a good problem to solve.
The kale, chard and celery have gone on similar runs this spring. In fact we had multiple servings of kale this spring from the garden, and the celery is resembling large celery stalks one might find in a store as well. I mean i use the celery all year long and just cut some as i need it for soups, sauces or other savoury fried delicacies. I would say we shall be eating chard pretty soon as well. All of these plants are large enough to survive rodent holes around their root systems... It's clearly not good for them, but it is not fatal.
Obviously the garlic is on pace as well... clearly any man worth his salt has his own private line of garlic. I know where mine came from... it gives the culinary artist a distinct advantage... you see nobody can truly recreate what you did because they don't have access to the lineage of garlic that belongs as a part of your functional kitchen. Garlic is almost the easiest thing to grow... put a clove in the ground in the fall and next year get a bulb... break some of those up and replant and power your kitchen for the year on the rest. Give me one bulb of fine garlic and in a few years i never have to buy garlic again. I mean obviously if you can avoid buying things that's good on a great number of levels... the greatest being: seeing that there is another way. Do not underestimate this... a great number of people on this planet can only see the way they have been told... People are told to buy things wrapped in plastic and to throw the plastic in the garbage and all will be good.
There is always another way in life, sure it might take a bit of time and effort but it makes the reward all the more delicious. That's where the "religious" angle to gardening lays a pretty heavy trip... be good to something and it will be good to you... let things be and they will help you to be... foster growth and that growth will foster you... share your bounty with your brothers.
This is a squirrel hole dug through chicken wire over a planter box... a innocent young heirloom purple carrot plant was murdered as a result of this terrorist squirrel. A child has been robbed of precious co-enzymes that help enable sight. As the prophet Akira once said "you have to see everything" when a terrorist squirrel robs a child of their ability to see in a time when the world needs it's youth to see clearly we need some serious thought. There are squirrel recipes that call for celery... and there is a saying we used in Canada... it had to do with bears. It goes, a fed bear is a dead bear. If you feed a bear the bear will become accustomed to being fed and become a nuisance and since it could kill a human easily humans decide to kill the bear before it kills a human. Now a squirrel has little chance of killing a human beyond the stroke or backfiring boobie trap it might enable, but a nuisance is a nuisance. A squirrel that buries natural chestnuts doesn't kill seedlings in the spring because there are no fucking chestnuts to bury in the spring... only a lunatic gives squirrels things to bury in the spring. Don't be one of those.
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