Originally Posted by Zhaylin
I love the idea of gardening, but I'm too lazy... and dumb about what's what. You guys actually got me talking to hubby about gardening yesterday. I told him I never know what the yields would be. I always pictured planting, say, 1 potato seed and you get one potato out of it. One carrot seed equals 1 carrot. He was explaining that a lot of things grow in bushels and you can get multiple yields out of them. I told him, 'yeah... I never really thought about that. It would really suck if you got just one blueberry off a blueberry bush.'
I know about using pie pans to scar away birds and putting stockings over tomato plants and berries to keep things from eating them (or so I've heard), but growing the stuff? Forget it.
I'd be one of the first to go during the apocalypse.. then again, I already live off of garbage. Hook me up with slim jims and potato chips and other scroungables and I might just have a shot
Haha, yeah one potato will probably make more like 20 potatoes in the roots... I'm gonna grow them this year and see what happens. Really, I'm getting this far with gardening just by reading up online, watching lots of YouTube videos about gardening and just doing it myself out in the backyard. Forget "green thumb", it's just practice, patience and research. Here's a good link I've been reading voraciously while I prepare seeds right now...
Companion Planting
Gonna sow clover seeds under my grape vines, because those are supposed to work really good together according to that link.
I'm a little anxious because I'm running out of time to sow some more carrots, lettuces and herbs, before it gets too hot. Luckily I FINALLY have mulch now. So far I haven't had nearly enough mulch to fill the garden space, and the bare compost has just been baking and practically nothing has come up yet... but the oats are going crazy... because they got the little bit of mulch I had available.
It's only gonna get more and more ambitious from here on out, though. This summer I'll be growing corn, beans, melons (watermelon and cantaloupe), tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, sunflowers, morning glories, wheat, all sorts of herbs and greens, even popcorn, chia and flax!
Another topic, not sure if rant or rave: my sleeping habits are a complete 180 from what they used to be, and I think it was because I was on anti-depressants before. I used to be able to sleep in for HOURS, many times over 12 hours, sometimes up to 16 hours, and I would NEVER wake up naturally in the morning without an alarm or some loud noise to wake me up. One time I got home from work in the afternoon, exhausted, climbed straight to bed, and never woke up until the phone ring woke me up in the morning, and it was someone at work asking me if I was coming in today. I was an hour late. If it wasn't for the phone, I would have slept for MORE than 16 hours I'm sure.
Now, without any anti-depressants, my body runs on 6 hours of sleep per night, without fail, and I don't even feel tired. Every single morning I wake up naturally at 6am, on the dot. There's nothing I can do to sleep in. Even with earplugs and nothing bothering me, I still wake up naturally right at 6. Every. Single. Morning. I don't even need an alarm anymore. I think it may also be because I work outdoors all day at my new job (at a plant nursery), so my body knows exactly when it's daytime and when it's nighttime. Plus all that physical labor and constant moving around (although I had that at my old job too)... and I barely even stop to take a break when I come home and run around getting things ready for my garden, whether getting mulch from the landfill, digging a huge hole and planting my new peach tree in it, setting up a new garden bed, transplanting grape vines, etc. I work harder and longer now than I've ever worked in my life, and it doesn't even bother me much. All I do otherwise is make sure I eat, drink and sleep enough to keep the fuel going.
Another interesting happening: as I got into the shower tonight, I saw myself and realized I literally have the fucking body of a Greek goddess. I used to be so worried that, given my high metabolism, even the slightest bit of exercise would make my small boobs disappear entirely, but that clearly is not the case. I look more fit and healthy now than I ever have before, too. So yeah, those are raves.
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