good birthday so far
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jinianFirst, I woke up too early. That part was no good. But it was worth it when I had time to read most of the delicious sfsite interviews with Greer Gilman (posted by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melymbrosia) before going to school. Classes were only okay, but after class I went to pick up my most recent math test and find that I'd gotten 102% despite mixing up tangent and cotangent in one place. Yow.
Coming home, I took myself out to lunch (I like Taco del Mar) in Wallingford, and then got some seeds and seed-growing paraphernalia in the Wallingford Center garden store. There were lots of yelly kids all over, but it was kinda cute today. And I got a great many exciting seeds, including a vine called Ruby Moon (nice fanart for reference) and some other exciting and possibly ill-advised things.
My knees are a little unhappy because I spent most of the afternoon out in the pea bed planting peas, examining the very happy overwintered alliums, and weeding. It now contains volunteer foxgloves, which will probably bloom this year and need to be moved to the bed by the big rose, as soon as there is a bed there; volunteer oregano, which is up for grabs by locals since I have plenty; volunteer lemon balm, ditto; overwintered peas, onions, and garlic; the garden-god mask that was in the overgrown bed area when we got here; seeds for more peas and for heartsease; shotweed which I have foolishly left behind for its good peppery flavor; and clover, which is welcome anywhere. I think that's it. I don't dislike the dandelions and cat's-ears, but their rosettes take up an awful lot of room in what is really quite a small vegetable bed, so out they went. Also removed the creeping charlie, for all the good it will do.
Am considering breeding chicken's meat into a giant salad green. It doesn't taste interesting, but it's fresh and green, and there's a ton of it right now.
... And I just got flowers from Wim's dad and his wife. (Sadly, they are kalanchoe, which I actually abandoned some of on purpose at my old place, but it was awfully nice of them.)
melymbrosia) before going to school. Classes were only okay, but after class I went to pick up my most recent math test and find that I'd gotten 102% despite mixing up tangent and cotangent in one place. Yow.Coming home, I took myself out to lunch (I like Taco del Mar) in Wallingford, and then got some seeds and seed-growing paraphernalia in the Wallingford Center garden store. There were lots of yelly kids all over, but it was kinda cute today. And I got a great many exciting seeds, including a vine called Ruby Moon (nice fanart for reference) and some other exciting and possibly ill-advised things.
My knees are a little unhappy because I spent most of the afternoon out in the pea bed planting peas, examining the very happy overwintered alliums, and weeding. It now contains volunteer foxgloves, which will probably bloom this year and need to be moved to the bed by the big rose, as soon as there is a bed there; volunteer oregano, which is up for grabs by locals since I have plenty; volunteer lemon balm, ditto; overwintered peas, onions, and garlic; the garden-god mask that was in the overgrown bed area when we got here; seeds for more peas and for heartsease; shotweed which I have foolishly left behind for its good peppery flavor; and clover, which is welcome anywhere. I think that's it. I don't dislike the dandelions and cat's-ears, but their rosettes take up an awful lot of room in what is really quite a small vegetable bed, so out they went. Also removed the creeping charlie, for all the good it will do.
Am considering breeding chicken's meat into a giant salad green. It doesn't taste interesting, but it's fresh and green, and there's a ton of it right now.
... And I just got flowers from Wim's dad and his wife. (Sadly, they are kalanchoe, which I actually abandoned some of on purpose at my old place, but it was awfully nice of them.)
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Date: 2004-02-18 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-02-19 12:45 am (UTC)An old seed catalog that just fell open while I was packing books offered a brassica described as a five-foot collard bush. (This catalog is, by the way, responsible for my confusion of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum with Sceletium tortuosum. Horus Botanicals is the guilty name.)
http://www.msue.msu.edu/jackson/Horticulture/hort_photo_gallery/images/Weed_Creeping_Charlie.jpg
Hey, that's jill-over-the-ground.
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Date: 2004-02-19 07:46 am (UTC)i kinda like creeping charlie. pretty flowers and it doesn't need mowing because it's soooo short. on the other hand, my primary concern about my yard is mowing it.
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Date: 2004-02-20 03:31 am (UTC)