“Was he surprised to see Mom outside growing veggies? I bet he was, but by now, he probably expects the unexpected when he comes home.”
“he probably expects the unexpected when he comes home” Well, he knows I’m not the usual mother who sits and knits, so he knows something will be going on with me that’s different than the last time he was here. I had told him I was learning to grow veggies, but...
when he looked out the double glass doors to the garden, he said, “Oh, me, that is a mess.” I expected that reaction because it was a mess. Plant containers were everywhere so that one had to pick his/her way through the mass of containers. I told him it was too hot for me to stay out there but now we could fix it.
He has this idea the deck should be a peaceful place where one can sit and enjoy the outside. There was nothing to enjoy when he got here.
Now, the deck is nice and many containers are on the ground dirt, freeing up space on the deck. We kept the strawberries on the deck on the right side and close to the roofed deck so it will be easier to cover them when we might have a freeze here.
The good news is he may be coming back in January to make another film in the US. He would be in Miami staying with the man who owns the film production company that is paying for the film. He would be traveling over the country to film whatever will go in that film. When he comes back, he won’t have to work in the garden the whole time he is here like we did this time.
I have staked the tomato plants but they are so spindly I doubt they will produce and that is my fault for not planting half the plant when I planted them outside. The good news for me is I grew those tomato plants from seed and know I can do it. Not having grown anything to knowing I can grow from seed is fantastic.
I have thought all my life I had a black thumb because I could kill any plant. No one has a black thumb - what they don’t have is knowledge how to do it. When I want to learn something, I beat it to death until I know it and that has happened with learning to grow veggie plants. I have been a pest on this gardening thread, questioning growers constantly. I will keep doing that because all of you know so much.
A very uplifting post to read. I love my girls, but sometimes I wish I had a son too-just to help me with stuff that hubby doesn’t have the time or inclination to do.LOL
You certainly have not been a pest, and you write some very entertaining sagas. This thread would be poorer if you suddenly stopped participating.
Since you get so focused and do lots of research, you are already making great contributions, and the newbies that are added almost every week are learning from you too. So we all pay it forward so to speak. Thanks to you and all the others for participating in the discussions.