Part of me is happy that the other gardeners have pea envy, the other part of me can go find a hole to hide in. Stockpile the victories my man because one day dame fortune will plant a rake in your pathway and you are going to step on that rake and take a whack on the beak and those bastard slugs will look up and laugh.
But for now there are billions of chloroplasts in the leaves of your plants capturing the hot sun's rays and producing food for you. This is where the little tweaks pay big dividends.
The potato boxes are really kicking into high gear... i don't have a photo of mine but you get the picture. My potatoes however have some beautiful blue flowers on them... or i should say had on them. Yes the smart wisdom is to nip off the flowers as you don't want, at this time, for the potatoes to make seed... you want more potatoes, you are a bloody starch monster and you need yield. My oldest daughter just loves mashed potatoes and she was over looking at the setup just tinting her fingers. There also seems to be a common wisdom to fill the potato boxes with straw... apparently this will give more room for potatoes to grow... this i didn't know until today. Luckily a gardening neighbour offered me some straw... i wasn't sure what to do with it but now i think i do. As a side note it's funny how useless some of these "gardening forms" are.. somebody asks a good question and then every idiot and his brain dead brother makes comments but nobody answers the question correctly. You see i was in the garden chatting with a good man... lets call him Reichel just in case this story turns incriminating... we were talking about potato flowers. No we both smartly agreed that as a general rule any plant making food, that doesn't directly come from the result of a flower, should not be allowed to go to flower if one wants continued food production. So i pinched the flowers off and i agreed to look it up. Then comes the problem with the internet, where every moron gets his form to clog up avenues to good information and point out the useless things that they think that have no bearing on anything.
So what i think is right is that when potatoes flower you can grab some young potatoes for a quick dinner if you like tasty young potatoes, but if you nip off the flowers and pack more straw and build the box up higher you will get more potatoes. So far i have used planter box soil, but i will try the straw next.
Back at home the strawberries are coming in like gangbusters:
But for now there are billions of chloroplasts in the leaves of your plants capturing the hot sun's rays and producing food for you. This is where the little tweaks pay big dividends.
The potato boxes are really kicking into high gear... i don't have a photo of mine but you get the picture. My potatoes however have some beautiful blue flowers on them... or i should say had on them. Yes the smart wisdom is to nip off the flowers as you don't want, at this time, for the potatoes to make seed... you want more potatoes, you are a bloody starch monster and you need yield. My oldest daughter just loves mashed potatoes and she was over looking at the setup just tinting her fingers. There also seems to be a common wisdom to fill the potato boxes with straw... apparently this will give more room for potatoes to grow... this i didn't know until today. Luckily a gardening neighbour offered me some straw... i wasn't sure what to do with it but now i think i do. As a side note it's funny how useless some of these "gardening forms" are.. somebody asks a good question and then every idiot and his brain dead brother makes comments but nobody answers the question correctly. You see i was in the garden chatting with a good man... lets call him Reichel just in case this story turns incriminating... we were talking about potato flowers. No we both smartly agreed that as a general rule any plant making food, that doesn't directly come from the result of a flower, should not be allowed to go to flower if one wants continued food production. So i pinched the flowers off and i agreed to look it up. Then comes the problem with the internet, where every moron gets his form to clog up avenues to good information and point out the useless things that they think that have no bearing on anything.
So what i think is right is that when potatoes flower you can grab some young potatoes for a quick dinner if you like tasty young potatoes, but if you nip off the flowers and pack more straw and build the box up higher you will get more potatoes. So far i have used planter box soil, but i will try the straw next.
Back at home the strawberries are coming in like gangbusters:
I have been getting a bowl like this a day for over a week and I'd say we are at about the mid point mark. Remember you need to be on slug patrol ever night to keep the population at bay. If it wasn't a war then you might not enjoy the spoils of victory as much. My main problem with strawberries is that i live with 3 little strawberry monsters... they will gather around a plate like that and devour it in a few minutes. They get good position on the bowl and keep their elbows up high to fend off and fathers trying to get in there. That is of course why GOD made the decoy bowl of strawberries, and while the kids hoard over the decoy bowl of strawberries the father locks himself in the washroom with a bowl of the prime berries and goes to town at his own pace without the intrusion of little hands.
Also i am going to have to start freezing peas for those November stir fries, and i am reminded of the work in harvesting. To me harvesting is one of the more satisfying things in life... perhaps beaten only by finishing a song in a recording studio where the bed track was nailed. But it is work, make no mistake about it, a farmers job is never done, but if you like the work it is about as satisfying as it comes. So many people go to work and their job is to jackal somebody into doing something that is no good for that person, or the community or the planet in general, but they won't get paid if they don't do it, so they do it and on some level must be injured by it. There was a time i was a stereo salesman, it was a very brief period and i was reamed by management one day when i refused to up-sell a more expensive VCR to a pot breathed kid who needed a VCR to watch movies with his roommates. They told me i was a failure and if i wanted to succeed i needed to follow the plan... i quit. I think that's why gardening is my kind of religion... do the right thing and let it happen, it's work but it's honest, and heck even good for all.
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