Victory Gardening
Apr. 30th, 2012 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, I see why the packet said not to start pumpkin seeds indoors. Aside from questions of whether they transplant well, it is not reliably warm outside yet, what with the wild oscillations between 80- and 50-degree F weather, and the goddamn squash and pumpkin vines are taking over the kitchen. This is what I get for looking at the seed packet and thinking, "I've got some I won't use. Let's do some SCIENCE!"
Also, the garden has fallen prey to banditry. Not in the form of birds, raccoons, bugs, or even the accursed mollusca, but rather in the form of Vintner Dad, who in the space of a week stole all my dirt and broke my shovel. It was a nice new hobbit-sized shovel Mom had bought just for me, since my trying to work with the giant-ass spades in the workshop would be ludicrous. He did replace both items, but it has made gardening a bit trickier when the stuff I think is there isn't.*
But it looks like the garden will actually grow! The radishes are flourishing, the chard has sprouted, the strawberry has bloomed, and the calendulas have begun their bid for world domination.** I'm hoping the beans are next to sprout.
This has been your latest dispatch from the Victory Garden. Tune in next time to find out how the squashes do!
*Although it was almost worth it just to find the dirt wasn't the same stuff I'm using, because how often do you get to yell "This ain't no chickenshit! What the hell is this bullshit?" and mean it literally?
**I made the mistake of planting a few calendulas last year, and didn't get to them all before they FUCKING EXPLODED. Darn things are rivaling the dandelions for sheer proliferation.
Also, the garden has fallen prey to banditry. Not in the form of birds, raccoons, bugs, or even the accursed mollusca, but rather in the form of Vintner Dad, who in the space of a week stole all my dirt and broke my shovel. It was a nice new hobbit-sized shovel Mom had bought just for me, since my trying to work with the giant-ass spades in the workshop would be ludicrous. He did replace both items, but it has made gardening a bit trickier when the stuff I think is there isn't.*
But it looks like the garden will actually grow! The radishes are flourishing, the chard has sprouted, the strawberry has bloomed, and the calendulas have begun their bid for world domination.** I'm hoping the beans are next to sprout.
This has been your latest dispatch from the Victory Garden. Tune in next time to find out how the squashes do!
*Although it was almost worth it just to find the dirt wasn't the same stuff I'm using, because how often do you get to yell "This ain't no chickenshit! What the hell is this bullshit?" and mean it literally?
**I made the mistake of planting a few calendulas last year, and didn't get to them all before they FUCKING EXPLODED. Darn things are rivaling the dandelions for sheer proliferation.
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Date: 2012-04-30 06:50 pm (UTC)I think that by the time we moved, the backyard was 100% zucchiniland. We had zucchini the size of infants. Not small infants. We had one zucchini that outweighed my brother when he was three.
Needless to say, we got so fucking sick of zucchini bread.
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Date: 2012-04-30 08:33 pm (UTC)If it tries, it, though, it'll have to compete with the exploding calendulas. It'll be a regular battlefield.
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Date: 2012-04-30 06:52 pm (UTC)I am moving soon and will have a backyard finally. I am actually thinking about maybe doing a little vineyard . . . Is your dad following a book or websites or just general knowledge? What sort of grapes is he using?
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Date: 2012-04-30 08:17 pm (UTC)He's generally going by books and magazines. SO MANY BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
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Date: 2012-05-03 05:37 am (UTC)In other news, damn you: that other comic you linked to made me actually have to go play through the entire game again. It's rather embarrassing to admit just how much of my sense of fantasy was shaped by a game where you have to kick the ass of a wedding cake.
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Date: 2012-05-03 07:51 pm (UTC)Need to complete Super Star Saga too...never got around to finishing it.
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Date: 2012-05-03 09:54 pm (UTC)They really souped up the SMRPG timed attacks and defenses for the Mario & Luigi series. There's a lot more animation and you have to do a lot more strategizing based on any given monster's size and shape. I get a huge kick out of playing as Bowser, though my favorite from that series is Partners In Time. Something about Luigi's pseudoItalian gibberish in that one cracks me up. (I always make it a point to build Luigi into an unstoppable tank. I dunno, it's just funnier that way.)
I still highly recommend SMRPG. Square did marvelously weird things to the Marioverse, their sense of humor is spot-on, and it's also simply gorgeous. And the attention to detail was great--there are endless bizarre little Easter eggs for you to find, like exiting the wrong way out of Marrymore, or suddenly turning into 8-Bit Mario, or the whole business with the Lamb's Lure. The attacks are wildly fun. (The "hurling Mario at the bad guys" Bowser employs in one of the comics is an actual weapon you can buy.) And Toad is just so cute in that one.
Plus, Fawful's got a spiritual cousin in Booster. Booster is just weird.