When we moved to Minnesota from Ohio, we put in a garden. We put in a garden like we would in Ohio, which turns into a very different creature than what needed to be planted in Minnesota.
In Ohio, to get a couple good side dishes of peas, you had to plant a lot of peas. So we did.
Do you know that in Minnesota, if you plant a lot of peas, you end up with ... a LOT OF PEAS. Like, mountains of them. We picked and ate and picked and ate and picked and froze, and froze and froze. Not in little cute containers, mind you. In 5 quart ice cream buckets. We had peas coming out of our ears.
The last trip through the garden, my Mom instructed us to pull the damned things out of the ground, and toss them into a pile.
THEY REROOTED THEMSELVES AND BUILT MORE PEAS. I seriously thought it was peas by Skynet. I am fairly sure when we tossed them onto the pile, I heard a little voice mutter 'I'll be back'.
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In Ohio, to get a couple good side dishes of peas, you had to plant a lot of peas. So we did.
Do you know that in Minnesota, if you plant a lot of peas, you end up with ... a LOT OF PEAS. Like, mountains of them. We picked and ate and picked and ate and picked and froze, and froze and froze. Not in little cute containers, mind you. In 5 quart ice cream buckets. We had peas coming out of our ears.
The last trip through the garden, my Mom instructed us to pull the damned things out of the ground, and toss them into a pile.
THEY REROOTED THEMSELVES AND BUILT MORE PEAS. I seriously thought it was peas by Skynet. I am fairly sure when we tossed them onto the pile, I heard a little voice mutter 'I'll be back'.