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

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

One year, when I was in middle school, we made the mistake of planting three zucchini plants. It was insane, a Day Of The Triffids scale plant invasion. We'd pick everything, and the next day find zucchini the size of baseball bats, way too big to miss. We had sauteed zucchini, zucchini bread, zucchini chocolate chip cupcakes (sounds weird, but tastes really good! The zucchini keeps the cake moist), zucchini relish...so much zucchini relish. We just used up the last jar of it a couple of years ago. I'm in my 30s now.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

My parents have a no zucchini in their garden policy. Because at least one neighbor always plants zucchini and will inevitably be giving away zucchini, so any desire for zucchini my mom has for bread or whatnot is always filled by whoever planted zucchini that year. Because no matter how few zucchini you plant, there's always too much!

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Around here, there's a joke that the only time you need to lock your Car Doors is Zucchini season ;)

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Yeah - we had a similar invasion one year that resulted in zucchini hanging from the trees. Which was more than a bit bizarre.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that's an accomplishment.