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If the human mind was simple enough to understand,

we'd be too simple to understand it. (Emerson Pugh)

this is not reality

October 21, 2008

How my garden grows

I really love having a garden, even the small courtyard out back & deck-with-pots out front satisfies my green thumb. It relaxes me; time passes and before I realise, it’s getting dark (or raining) and I need to go inside. Here’s what I’ve got growing: rhubarb, silverbeet (chard), capsicums (peppers), tomatoes (regular & cherry varieties), zucchinis (courgette / squash), three types of perpetual lettuce (cos, red oakleaf, and some frilly leaf variety), pumpkin (which decided to grow out of the compost), and a multitude of herbs (chives, parsley, coriander, basil, oregano, tarragon, lemon balm, mint, thyme). I think we’re going to have fresh produce coming out of our ears in a couple of months. I also planted some marigolds and nasturtium seeds as companion plants; the nasturtiums aren’t doing too well - the leaves start out pale green and just keep getting paler until they die.

I was relieved to discover I hadn’t killed the worms in my worm farm. I built it about a month ago, based roughly on this instructable. There didn’t appear to be a lot of action aside from a whole lot of fruit-fly type bugs each time I lifted the lid, and so I worried that I’d let it dry out, and then I worried that I’d over-watered it. This evening I discovered all good things take time (and I needn’t overcomplicate things; particularly things as simple as a worm farm). Really, what kind of action-packed excitement was I expecting from a worm farm? When I opened the bottom drawstring, there was plenty of compost / worm casing goodness. I sorted out the good dirt and put the worms back in the top; my plants will love this tasty dirt.

I’m grateful for my patch of dirt and to at least start creating some self-sustainability.

jen at 8:33 pm

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