Gardening Woes...
06/14/2010
I worked in my garden on Saturday for about four hours; you know the one I doubled in size earlier this spring. It nearly killed me. I am not too sure now I knew what I was doing when I made the not-so-smart decision to go bigger. Now I am thinking The Nancy’s encouragement to make it larger (though my idea) may have had an ulterior motive. I remembered, as I pulled about a ton of weeds out of it, just how hard I had to work to keep the non-veggie, extra growth under control. There may be a padded room somewhere with my name on it. Surely I was out of my mind.
Having said all of that, I must admit the bounty of the garden in 2009 far and away out weighed the stress I put on this rapidly aging body. Last year I did acquire many scraps and bruises, bumps and cuts as a result of working in the cage I call “Hell’s Kitchen” (I stole that from a TV show). It is nice to walk up there and walk around it when most of what I view is plants growing that will eventually provide us with sustenance and future epicurean delights. At the same time I cannot help to think how tired we got eating zucchini this and zucchini that, and tomatoes this and tomatoes that, last year. We ate tomatoes every day, along with zucchini and yellow squash. We had so many peppers of various varieties we started tossing them in the trash; we gave away as much as we ate and we froze a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes right off the vine – they made some great marinara sauces last winter. In October I deemed the garden a complete success and that is when I lost my mind and decided to enlarge it.
The garden is as large as it is going to be, though there is at least another 1500 square feet of space left in the 40’X80’garden plot some former owner of the place had there. Having said that, if you should ever read here I am considering enlarging it again, please, send out the men in white coats to cart me to that padded cell. This cannot be what God intended for me?
And that is all I have to say about that…