March 18, 2006

A new St. Patty's day tradition

I decided to eschew the getting drunk and installing second story screens tradition this year and instead got the vegetable garden going, planting a row each of spinach, brocoli, lettuces, and vidalia onions. Over the course of the week, I added about 400 pounds of compost plus 320 pds of new topsoil. When I turned it over with the fork, it was feathering together like cake mix, which is sweet given the hard red Virginia clay we have to work with. The March plantings are in one quadrant, and the greens will be replaced once things get warmer but some more summery stuff.

While buying the topsoil, I went a little nuts at the garden center and picked up 6 fruit bushes (3 blueberry, 2 raspberry, 1 blackberry---alas, no huckleberry), plus a couple of bags of summer bulbs. This is the first year I've ever really felt ahead of the gardening curve.

Posted by Steve at March 18, 2006 08:53 PM | TrackBack
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Of course when you sober up, you will realize you planted 3 dozen 60 watt lightbulbs and 30 empty Leggs panythose containers (don't ask) into the back of your neighbor's Ford Explorer. Ahead on the gardening curve and a tad behind on the learning one...

Posted by: LB Buddy at March 19, 2006 12:02 AM

that would explain the flaming bag of poop on my doorstep.

Posted by: Steve the LLamabutcher at March 19, 2006 09:00 AM