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crafty_packratHam steak, sandwich steak, 4 flavors of lemonade, a gallon of lemonade (well, the concentrate for it), 4 flavors of kettle corn, plums, nectarines, pears, pawpaws, beef borek, spinach borek, roasted beets, extreme chocolate chip cookies, nasturtiums, basil plants, Thai chili pepper plants, a lemon verbena plant, 3 Cheese Steak handpies, 3 Mexican Street Corn handpies, an All & Oats bar, a Chocolate You're a Little Salty square, a Very Berry Doodles stack, a buttermilk cake slice, a Loaded oatmeal stack, and a chewy ginger stack.
I met up with my friend A Psuedonym To Be Decided Later, and hit the Ace Hardware for garden supplies: a trowel, gloves, some green bean seeds, 3 bags of garden soil, a bag of dehydrated cow manure, and some fall vegetable seedlings -- cauliflower, kale, chard, red cabbages, pak choi and another basil.
She and her mother have just bought a house, and while there is a backyard, the beds in it have been neglected. We spent an hour or so pulling overgrown morning glory vines and general trimming; I found 4 pots under all the vines, two of which were medium-sized strawberry planters. The beds, as it turned out, are a thin layer of bark over landscaping cloth over unpromising red clay.
We made do, scraping holes in the bark and mounding garden soil and composted manure over the seedling roots. I gave her a couple of chili pepper seedlings, a tomato seedling, and a pair of Mexican sour gherkin seedlings. I scattered my bag of crush crab-shell fertilizer over all our plantings as well, and then watered them. Hopefully some of them will do well and she'll have a small fall vegetable garden.
Then I took a quick shower, changed my clothes, and we drank from the gallon of lemonade and ate delivery salads. All in all, a productive day.
I met up with my friend A Psuedonym To Be Decided Later, and hit the Ace Hardware for garden supplies: a trowel, gloves, some green bean seeds, 3 bags of garden soil, a bag of dehydrated cow manure, and some fall vegetable seedlings -- cauliflower, kale, chard, red cabbages, pak choi and another basil.
She and her mother have just bought a house, and while there is a backyard, the beds in it have been neglected. We spent an hour or so pulling overgrown morning glory vines and general trimming; I found 4 pots under all the vines, two of which were medium-sized strawberry planters. The beds, as it turned out, are a thin layer of bark over landscaping cloth over unpromising red clay.
We made do, scraping holes in the bark and mounding garden soil and composted manure over the seedling roots. I gave her a couple of chili pepper seedlings, a tomato seedling, and a pair of Mexican sour gherkin seedlings. I scattered my bag of crush crab-shell fertilizer over all our plantings as well, and then watered them. Hopefully some of them will do well and she'll have a small fall vegetable garden.
Then I took a quick shower, changed my clothes, and we drank from the gallon of lemonade and ate delivery salads. All in all, a productive day.
