OK, really that wouldn't be a big headline except that it's the first harvest from our garden (I don't think chives really count as they pretty much exist 10 months of the year, the hardy little devils) and I was worried that our current heat wave would kill off all our butter lettuce before we got the chance to harvest any. Yesterday was 90 degrees and today was 94. Tomorrow is supposed to be 84--and there isn't supposed to be any frost this week, so I'm going to try planting tomatoes tomorrow. Honestly, this year gardening feels a bit like Russian Roulette.
Usually I plant a lot of stuff in the garden, hope for the best, and enjoy what comes up. This year is a bit different--I really NEED for things to come up. It feels a bit strange to be within a 5-minute drive of 3 supermarkets and yet to really be dependent on a garden, but we still have 8 months of this experiment to go--not to mention trying to live with a modified version of this next year--and to do that I really need to be able to produce our own food. Not to say that we would exactly starve if the garden did indeed fail, but cooking might get pretty strange by November without it. And I am really counting on those tomatoes.....
Speaking of cooking, I finally felt good enough today to cook both breakfast AND lunch, which was exciting. I'm halfway through the recovery period now. Three weeks from tomorrow I hope to get the go-ahead to start doing normal things again!
2 comments:
Glad to read that you're on the mend. You seem so high energy - it must be frustrating! I know when I've been down for the count I haven't been exactly patient (heh..get it?) about it myself.
Yay lettuce! I'm sending good gardening vibes to you - ours is doing much better than last year.
Don't try to push yourself too hard.
Hope all goes well with the garden this year.
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