It's hard for me to believe, that i still have those cheap clogs and that brand new shovel is now well worn, decades have passed. My then garden is now a lawn and yes, the grass does still grows faster over that 35'by90' patch of well nourished ground. Composting is a way of life for me. every potato skin, every apple core...every eggshell... are taken to the garden and dung into shallow trenches, Grass clipping and leaves go into another pile which is for flowers etc and gets to to steep and brew for a much longer time, supposedly this takes care of any weeds seeds that might be in it, could be true!
I do spend a lot of time in my garden, and sometimes i sing to my plants and sometimes i just look at them with wonder. Not because i think that they understand me, or are soothed by my voice, but because they like the CO2 i breath on them. after about a week of being in the garden the tomatoes are starting to turn a rich green. I usually also grow some cukes, may-be a couple zucchini plants, potatoes, gourds, and the seeds this were saved from particularly nice pumpkins, others are from seed packets that were to be tossed out because they were thought to be too old to sprout.....and so forth, well they are breaking thru the happy earth in my garden, there are also a small heap of potato plants the grew from last winters parings?!?!!!! Not a great many but enough of them to have some truly fresh summer potatoes.
Ummm sorry i do get carried away with admiration, even a touch of wonder when i talk about my garden.
This year was gripped by a particularly long and bitter winter, much like the winters i remember form grade school days. And like then i thought spring would never arrive, then i thought it was merely teasing us. my sprouting asparagus, were frozen several times. I only picked a few, like about 7 to enjoy, didn't want to weaken the plants.
The brief a couple of days of tending the stoker and a snow shower in late May followed by a string of frosts and freezes each night was a a real puzzler. Suddenly it was summer, had to get the tomatoes planted....YAH! And to rained for 8 straight days! the ground that looked like cement dried for a couple days making it easy to till and unlikely to be huge solid tiller tine breaking clumps.
So far this year I have found no lost buttons, or marbles, only an almost intact cup handle, but the year is still young.
