Saturday, September 29, 2012

we have green lights out in garden crazyland










I went to a seed swap last weekend. I met some super cool folks. Feasted on some delicious grub. Shot the shit. Greedily traded seeds and gardening super secrets. Thus, my freaky gardening head was reared, and now my seeding obsession cannot be tamed.

(I also met a movie star at the seed swap, which is ironic considering that I just moved from movie-star-laden California and had never even seen one before -- ok, I saw Drew Barrymore once, but that was in Vegas.)

Unfortunately, it is now early fall and I'm way behind in terms of seeding a fall garden. But this does not deter me, NO. Instead, I went off the deep end and ordered Christmas lights to keep my seedlings warm in the depths of freezing temperatures. Green Christmas lights, to be exact, because plants cannot see green light so this way, they will be warmed against the Fall frosts and Winter chill but not be thrown off by unwelcome nighttime light and do strange things like flower before I'm ready for them to.

When temperatures are predicted to be too low for my garden's comfort, I have a long piece of visqueen at the ready to tuck my plants in and keep them warm. What a way to baby something that you're just going to chow down on in a month or two. Poor unsuspecting plants.

Also, I've talked about the rocks before. Now you can see the fruits of my laborious labors. All those rocks are being used elsewhere now as decorative garden bed edging. Because we can't have haphazard garden edges now can we?

4 comments:

  1. Your green lights made me laugh. :-) I'm looking forward to seeing if they work!

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    1. If anything, they're pretty, right? I just love me some Christmas lights. ;)

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  2. I need to cage over the top of my garden beds. My garden sucked this year because the raccoons kept stealing everything that was ripe and trampling everything that was trying to grow. Very frustrating. Looks like you are living your dream...that's awesome! I'm jealous-as I sit at my desk at this lame office job! :-)

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    1. I cut some access holes in the welded wire for sticking my hand into for thinning, but I've kinda neglected this garden patch for the past couple weeks because I've been consumed by other chores. It's still plugging along, though, albeit slowly because we've had some cold spells and I'm not getting as much sun as I thought (once the tree leaves fall, that will change -- still figuring out our microclimates). I've also neglected the blog itself because I've been working some and trying to wrassle up more work, so don't be jealous because this will probably just end up being a long sabbatical instead of the dream of never sitting at a desk again, lol -- but I'm actually OK with that because I've discovered that I do enjoy sitting down and just WORKING. I just don't want to do it 40 hours/week! Ironically, it allows me to stop worrying about what I haven't done yet on the homestead. But it's stressful not having an income, so we're trying to remedy that without also pulling our hair out. :)

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