* I like to think of myself as a tough "I-can-take-it" sort of farm girl. This did not, however, keep me from running through the yard screaming like a complete idiot when I discovered aphids crawling on me.
* If you show mercy on the vermin the cats bring in, next season the vermin will decide to move in and bring friends.
* Once you make the third type of zucchini cake, it's time to kill the plant. Or join Weight Watchers.
* Just when you start to think growing a garden is easy, it will be time to learn about powdery mildew. Or aphids. Or moles.
* No matter what the package says, there is no such thing as a "bush-type" squash plant in my yard. We got the "crawling-all-over-and-taking-hostages" kind.
* Some days my biggest goal will be to remain clean until at least 9:00 AM.
* Ask a few questions before ordering a garlic sampler pack for planting. When it says it includes elephant garlic, it really might mean one lousy clove.
* As a resident of a desert state, I would never have believed it, but sometimes less rain really is better.
* Gardens are a veritable mole smorgasbord, and they are probably going to like the same things we like. The eggplant will be untouched.
* In gardening as in as knitting, "heirloom" is a nice term for "fussy."
* The garden hasn't read the same gardening books that I have, and is going to do whatever it darn well pleases anyway.
* My favorite flowers will be the ones that take the least amount of effort. Zinnias are my current favorites, though I will keep an open mind if the mum ever flowers.
* The only place tomatoes will have trouble growing is where you planted them. Everywhere else they grow like gangbusters.
* I am a "leg-ist." I am not proud of it, but I have to admit that while I generally like things with two legs, or 4, things with 6 or 8 legs really freak me out. I will be attending leg-sensitivity classes this fall....
* Sometimes the garden knows best. One eggplant probably really was enough.
* They are called "slicing" cucumbers because they probably taste better raw than the "pickling" varieties. That would have been good information to have in May.
* Sometimes a relationship needs to end....and a good hard frost will generally do it.
1 comment:
well... that was what you learned. Don't foreget we were there too....
Learning about gumby bread, and how much canning you can do from ONE HOME GARDEN!
Hats off my friend, what a fantastic adventure! Now what? ;)
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