Getting out into the yard today was good. I need to get out there more often. I keep thinking about gardening but get overwhelmed with the thought of it, partly because I’m also doing like 50 million other things (at least), but gardening and composting is really important to me. The compost pile is in full effect (yo), but the most I’ve done with gardening is daydream about luscious, home grown kale.
What I need to do is just start small and build up. There is a small bed next to the garage and also a small frame that our landlord dropped off for a raised bed. I’m going to start with one of these and just one or two “crops” then work my way up to other stuff. Also, on a related note, inspired by a recent blog post elsewhere, I plan to start sprouting.
What are they looking at? Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
After I mowed the lawn, Shorts and Totes came outside to investigate. They sniffed around and chased each other a bit. They’re not quite to the point of snuggling together, but I think that’s coming soon. I’ll post here as soon as they do.
Photo taken with iPhone and scaled with GIMP.
Lawns are weird. I’m not sure why most people have one. They don’t seem to be fully utilized all that often. We water them just to mow them down. On top of that, we could be growing food, not some pesky weed. In fact, we could just grow dandelions and other edible “weeds”–they’re highly nutritious. But we hate dandelions in this culture.
Having said that, I actually enjoy mowing the lawn. Not with one of those noisy, polluting gas mowers but with a push mower. Now, that, my friends, is some good, clean fun. It’s somehow meditative and a damn good workout. Not that it’s all that hard, mind you. The push mower I used looks ancient, but it cut that grass down like nobody’s business.
Photo taken with iPhone and edited with GIMP.
Take that, grass!
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