Victory Gardening

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That's how the pumpkins were last year, too. I've never transplanted them, though--they're used to the indoors right now. That's the real problem--inexperience.