Long Division

You can still divide carrots. I was talking to someone on Friday who'd been lying in her garden, thinning carrots. She gardens like me: toss out the seed, let the beasties grow until they're pressing in on each other, then thin, transplant, eat, etc. This way you get a lot of plants to work with. See Victory Garden

Yesterday it was lovely again. I thinned my carrots in my dreams and then sat by the water for about a half-hour and watched some kind of duck swim about. My friend said they were buffleheads. I don't know ducks--but I loved how they lifted off them landed again. Their little feet were so cute, sticking them forward like a cartoon character coming in for landing. On the way, we walk the rails to Post Point, trees were full of singing birds. It was lovely. And there were many kayakers out; the water so calm and the kayakers gliding along. Ahhhh, hopefully more sunshine will return today. So nice compared to all that drizzle we had last week.

So back to transplanting. I always transplant the minitures. It works well for me. Although I'm sure there are the planters who dish out the seed along rows in units. These folks have their ways too. Giving garden gifts for Christmas is a good idea. Once a got a little cart that I could pull around on wheels. I could sit on it in the garden and inside were my tools: trowel, pronged thingy, digging thingy, seed, string, knife, iron slug bait.

Always in love with life,
Flower

Day After Ski to Sea

In B'ham, when weather is great which it was yesterday, everyone and their dog, as my mother used to say, come out of the woodwork. In Fairhaven there was a mass of people on the streets eating icecream and pizza and chicken in peanut sauce. There were jugglers and acrobats and musicians. Down Harris at Marine Park, the kayaks came in after the big race. The canoe lag was canceled because the river rose a foot overnight. Smart. All the noise almost had me bowing out and spending the day in the garden. As it was, I spent the day with my friend wandering around town, perusing the car show down in Boulevard park, and sitting at the beach for awhile to watch the kayakers come in. We had a glass of wine later, outside of Purple Smiles, and then went to a movie. Afterwards I tried to get the peat, but Lowes was closed. Today it is raining, I may or may not go to the garden.