Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Oh MAY Goodness!
OH MAY GOODNESS@!@!
It is time to start really getting to work in those gardens. The weather has still been telling us that it is cold but don't fret my gardening friends. Soon it will change. One way to make the weather better: DON'T believe the weather! Out here the weather can seem way worse on paper (or screen) than it feels on your face as you scramble to plug every hole in your garden with veggies and flowers.
I have to admit something to you now. Garden Voyeurism...I have it bad. I love watching gardeners watch their gardens. We have all heard the idea of "zoning out" and all of its variations. What about Zoned in? When I stare at my garden for hours I am not "out" in the literal sense but "in". I am INto my garden. I am INto my creative. I am IN my nuturing (or is it naturing). Those moments are paramount for me and I am usually IN them OUTdoors. Often people go to the woods or to the space they define as wild to relax and unwind. To "get away from it all". The "it all" in this phrase would be the city grind. I have a different idea about this. I go to the wild for bewilderment and charge. BE WILD. Bewilder. Bewilderment. To me the modern definition of the word bewilderment does not capture the proximal and primordial meaning. This word means to be as the wild are (which to some of us is baffling). The plants in the glory of eating the sun to make manna for animals resting in the shade of the trees. I go to the woods to be charged up enough to use my energy when I return to the city. I am not like the animals unless I am with them. Unlike them, I go to the garden. I go to the mountain. My energy from there is used here.
The harvest I hoped to pick by now is still in the ground waiting for warmer days. The carrots and peas will be growing great until June. I am happy that our plants are ready from ACS; they will be transplanted into our gardens next week. Our gardens will have tons of transplants as well as beans, sunflowers, and other crops hand planted by the children. It seems we never stop seeding around here but I can't wait to start seeing all the growing happen. I am already getting ahead of myself trying to perfectly time my cover crop seeding and I have not even seen a tomato!
The kids played with WORM BINS this week. As you can see; we had a great time.
Things to do: BUY BEANS AND PLANT THEM EVERYWHERE
Harden off your transplants by sticking them outside half the day.
Prune up your perennials to keep them blooming.
Make some compost/manure tea and amend your beds with nutrients including calcium and magnesium for those heavy fruiting warm crops.
WEED WEED WEED!
Things to enjoy: The sun when it pokes through the clouds. For a moment you can feel your skin buzzing.
The ants that take all your surface seeded annuals into healthier tunnels beneath the ground. Nature works for me!
The peas as they fill out those leaves and grip up your trellis with their fingers.
Things to look forward to: Jamaican Sandwich= Slice of bread with butter toasted. Place thick cut garden tomato on bread and thick slice cheese. Melt in oven and consume immediately.
FRESH BASIL!
Swimming in the rivers.
Garden Guru Katz
It is time to start really getting to work in those gardens. The weather has still been telling us that it is cold but don't fret my gardening friends. Soon it will change. One way to make the weather better: DON'T believe the weather! Out here the weather can seem way worse on paper (or screen) than it feels on your face as you scramble to plug every hole in your garden with veggies and flowers.
I have to admit something to you now. Garden Voyeurism...I have it bad. I love watching gardeners watch their gardens. We have all heard the idea of "zoning out" and all of its variations. What about Zoned in? When I stare at my garden for hours I am not "out" in the literal sense but "in". I am INto my garden. I am INto my creative. I am IN my nuturing (or is it naturing). Those moments are paramount for me and I am usually IN them OUTdoors. Often people go to the woods or to the space they define as wild to relax and unwind. To "get away from it all". The "it all" in this phrase would be the city grind. I have a different idea about this. I go to the wild for bewilderment and charge. BE WILD. Bewilder. Bewilderment. To me the modern definition of the word bewilderment does not capture the proximal and primordial meaning. This word means to be as the wild are (which to some of us is baffling). The plants in the glory of eating the sun to make manna for animals resting in the shade of the trees. I go to the woods to be charged up enough to use my energy when I return to the city. I am not like the animals unless I am with them. Unlike them, I go to the garden. I go to the mountain. My energy from there is used here.
The harvest I hoped to pick by now is still in the ground waiting for warmer days. The carrots and peas will be growing great until June. I am happy that our plants are ready from ACS; they will be transplanted into our gardens next week. Our gardens will have tons of transplants as well as beans, sunflowers, and other crops hand planted by the children. It seems we never stop seeding around here but I can't wait to start seeing all the growing happen. I am already getting ahead of myself trying to perfectly time my cover crop seeding and I have not even seen a tomato!
The kids played with WORM BINS this week. As you can see; we had a great time.
Things to do: BUY BEANS AND PLANT THEM EVERYWHERE
Harden off your transplants by sticking them outside half the day.
Prune up your perennials to keep them blooming.
Make some compost/manure tea and amend your beds with nutrients including calcium and magnesium for those heavy fruiting warm crops.
WEED WEED WEED!
Things to enjoy: The sun when it pokes through the clouds. For a moment you can feel your skin buzzing.
The ants that take all your surface seeded annuals into healthier tunnels beneath the ground. Nature works for me!
The peas as they fill out those leaves and grip up your trellis with their fingers.
Things to look forward to: Jamaican Sandwich= Slice of bread with butter toasted. Place thick cut garden tomato on bread and thick slice cheese. Melt in oven and consume immediately.
FRESH BASIL!
Swimming in the rivers.
Garden Guru Katz
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