So after that little burst of up.
I don't care if it hurts. I wanna have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Radiohead, Creep (cover by the Pretenders)
Are we feeling down yet? Maybe.
Hey, rollercoasters have nothing on me.
In a vain attempt to try and ignore the downs I'm planning for my garden for 2008.
If you're a new reader (hi, please leave a comment!), you might be surprised to know that I live in an apartment.
It's 75 m2. Americans, because you don't think in m2, just think 'very small' and there you have it, on the nose.
Because I live in an apartment and I love to garden I have an allotment.
I grow stuff and then we eat it. Novel concept huh? Growing your own food?
Last year was a pretty successful. There were some fantastic failures, like the blight-stricken potatoes, like the cauliflowers that the slugs ate, like the digging out the blight-stricken potatoes for hours standing knee deep in stinking mud.
In retrospect even that sounds pretty exciting, no? Come on, it's exciting, really.
Unconvinced? Hmm, can't imagine why.
The gardener's almanac tells me that there is:
- One month until I can plant my shallots and onions.
- One month until the windowsills are full of little plants.
- One month until I have to dig and dig and dig.
- Two months until I can plant tomatoes, peas and beans in pots indoors, lettuce and carrots in the ground.
- Three months until I can plant squash and corn seeds indoors.
- Four months until May.
- Five months until June and then the garden explodes into life. Sun-soaked days, suntans and shorts.
Then it's all downhill from there. Ah fuck, that was an unsuccessful attempt to stop the winter blues, wasn' t it?
So, those plans. Let's see:
More squash. More tomatoes. Same amount of shallots and onions. Lots of peas. Lots of spinach. No beans. No fucking potatoes. Lots more lettuce. Many many more courgettes. Leeks. More strawberries.
Sweet peas. More flowers in general.
More beauty please. I need that.
Yup, I am dreaming about the new growing season too. This is the time to look at all those gorgeous catalogues! DH will be in charge of the potatoes, he has had a "thing" with it since potatoes started growing on our compostheep last summer. We had about 2-3 meals worth of potatoes out of our compost. Now that is recycling :)
You must be looking forward to your garden, Ash! I'm not having the winter blues too badly now, but let's talk again in February ...
Oh this makes me look forward to gardening... And I agree with you on the potatoes. Two years ago they did fine, but last year it was definitely not worth it. So, more green peppers and tomatoes, at least you can freeze those..