I just finished a nice update and when I went to post it it didn't work. Ahhh!!!!!!
I think the problem was that I had company come in the middle of my composing so it was a long time before I got back to it and finished it and tried to post it. I'm so bummed I lost it. It was good. Oh well, I'll have to try again soon.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Summer is over and I am finally adding another post. No, it's not that I was so busy gardening this summer that I didn't get around to posting. My gardening was almost a bust this summer and that's why I didn't post. At least that's one of the reasons. I was so totally bummed I didn't have what it took to come and post here. Add to that the fact that I don't really know if anyone reads this or not anyway. Sometimes I feel like it's just a waste of time for me to be taking the time to post here. But then I think, maybe, just maybe, sometime something said here might help me or someone else to become a better gardener and I can't quite let myself totally abandon it.
I was inspired to write today because of an email I received from an accomplished gardener, wondering what had happened to me. It's actually not the first one I received. There was another follow gardener that wrote and asked about my seeming disappearance earlier this summer. I should have picked myself up by the shoestrings then and got going again. But alas, I didn't. It's no good to dwell on should haves so I shall move on.
My summer gardening didn't go as planned and I was bummed and didn't do anything. Isn't that awful! My flowers seed that I had planted inside didn't come at all, probably because they were planted too deep. My vegetable seed did well, but I never did get them planted outside. I was waiting to get the stuff to make a good soil mix for it and I never did get it. I had so much planned to do this summer with the garden but circumstances that I had no control over changed it. My husband's union went on strike in May and didn't go back to work again until September. That, of course, meant there more no extra funds for gardening.
One good thing happened in the garden this summer, however. The asters that I planted last year re-seeded themselves and I had lots of beautiful asters come into bloom late in the summer. I even transplanted and gave away some. They were beautiful. I was shocked because they were annuals. I never thought about the fact that they could reseed. I have so much to learn.
Anyway, that's my update. Chow.
I was inspired to write today because of an email I received from an accomplished gardener, wondering what had happened to me. It's actually not the first one I received. There was another follow gardener that wrote and asked about my seeming disappearance earlier this summer. I should have picked myself up by the shoestrings then and got going again. But alas, I didn't. It's no good to dwell on should haves so I shall move on.
My summer gardening didn't go as planned and I was bummed and didn't do anything. Isn't that awful! My flowers seed that I had planted inside didn't come at all, probably because they were planted too deep. My vegetable seed did well, but I never did get them planted outside. I was waiting to get the stuff to make a good soil mix for it and I never did get it. I had so much planned to do this summer with the garden but circumstances that I had no control over changed it. My husband's union went on strike in May and didn't go back to work again until September. That, of course, meant there more no extra funds for gardening.
One good thing happened in the garden this summer, however. The asters that I planted last year re-seeded themselves and I had lots of beautiful asters come into bloom late in the summer. I even transplanted and gave away some. They were beautiful. I was shocked because they were annuals. I never thought about the fact that they could reseed. I have so much to learn.
Anyway, that's my update. Chow.
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