Mounting Anticipation (Innuendo Intended)
A week ago I was going to write about pest control, but the idea of reliving picking soft squishy little caterpillars off of my broccoli and then accidentally squishing them and watching dark green goo go all over the leaves.... makes me gag. Then I was going to write about how wet and cold it's been. But today the sun came out, and so I don't want to think about that anymore either.
Instead I want to talk about how this is both my favorite time in gardening, and the most excruciating. You see, this is the time when everything has properly taken off. My tomatoes are turning into bushes (yay! I didn't kill the tomato when I snapped the stem planting it!), my severely pruned chives are coming back, as mom says "the Champlain is more rose than bush", and all of the roses are covered in blossoms, and my beans are looking like they might actually produce something.
So it's wonderfully exciting, to see two months(at least) of work and worry starting to pay off. I can start eating some of the food I've grown, such as the broccoli, which did manage to survive a serious cabbage moth infestation.
The hard part, now, is waiting. Watching and hoping flowers turn into fruits, hoping fruits stay on the plant long enough to ripen, and that nothing else gets to ripe fruit before I do (you heard me cute little bunny in my yard, I'm talking to you!). Everything could go horribly wrong. The weather could make all of this potential disappear. But for right now, it's a pretty great time to be a gardener.
Instead I want to talk about how this is both my favorite time in gardening, and the most excruciating. You see, this is the time when everything has properly taken off. My tomatoes are turning into bushes (yay! I didn't kill the tomato when I snapped the stem planting it!), my severely pruned chives are coming back, as mom says "the Champlain is more rose than bush", and all of the roses are covered in blossoms, and my beans are looking like they might actually produce something.
So it's wonderfully exciting, to see two months(at least) of work and worry starting to pay off. I can start eating some of the food I've grown, such as the broccoli, which did manage to survive a serious cabbage moth infestation.
The hard part, now, is waiting. Watching and hoping flowers turn into fruits, hoping fruits stay on the plant long enough to ripen, and that nothing else gets to ripe fruit before I do (you heard me cute little bunny in my yard, I'm talking to you!). Everything could go horribly wrong. The weather could make all of this potential disappear. But for right now, it's a pretty great time to be a gardener.
The latest status shot.
The Love and Peace Rose
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