by Elaine Glimme » Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:25 am
From what you've written, giving up the second plot sounds like a good decision. I hope you get to the point where gardening is a pleasure. Pulling lots of weeds is not a pleasure.
Inspire, I don't want to steal your thunder. This is about your garden, not mine. But I have a couple of garden stories that I want to share, and this looks like the place to do it. I'm having my first party in my garden this Wednesday. Sounds like fun, but I have several messes in the garden that should be cleaned up before people come. Heavy tools to put away - lots of heavy tools to put away Stuff that needs to be hidden or covered over. In a way I scheduled the party to motivate me to get busy and fix the messes. And my friends are not the kind of friends who would turn up their noses at a little bit of clutter, but - this is really too much.
My second story is cool. A couple of years ago, my physical therapist told me about buying worms on Amazon (1000 worms) and planting them along with kitchen scraps to improve the soil. My soil is adobe clay, so hard you could make pottery out of it. Weeds grow just fine, but nothing else does. The worms sounded like fun, but - can you imagine buying 1000 worms, and storing enough kitchen scraps for 1000 worms (P.U.), and then digging up enough of the garden to house 1000 worms? There''s no way I could do all that digging in any reasonable time. I see 950 dead worms, and a pile of rotten food in the kitchen. So I started burying kitchen scraps - a little at a time. And then I forgot about it. The next year I went to plant some things using purchased potting soil to put them in. I was digging through the adobe, and suddenly I found this beautiful composted soil with fat happy worms in it. I didn't have to buy worms at all. So I've been planting garbage here and there in the garden ever since.
Okay, I'm done. You had a great garden (last year?) you said. I hope you get that again.
Elaine Glimme - author - "Temporary Address" and "The Molly Chronicles"