Green haze/salad days
May. 8th, 2003 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI stopped at Mahoney's (a local garden store) last night. I had planned to get some herbs for the porch, and one or two for my office. I was overcome with the leaf quest, however, and succumbed to salad lust, as well. I bought
Also some pots, dishes to put under them, and 2 feet of dirt (yes, that's 2 cubic feet of dirt, but somehow it's always called 2 feet. This mixing of linear and cubic measurements is frustrating to me.).
When I got home, I finally took the s'chach [1] down (only how many months before the *next* Sukkot?), getting dust in my eyes only a couple of times. With it down, the rest of the sukkah frame began to look more like a usable pergola, which got me thinking about all I could do with the space. I could hang flowers from the rafters, have some trailing plants, perhaps, make it much more green than I've managed in years past, when it's been some herbs and a lone tomato plant. I imagined having a tea in my 'garden'... Of course, this will take time and money, and who knows if my enthusiasm will last long enough to implement it all. However, I would like to get the porch more usable than last year, when I didn't spend as much time as I'd like out there. Perhaps it is time to get nicer chairs, and a real table, too. (How much of this is grandiose scheming? I don't know.)
I repotted all of the plants I'd planned to have at home, and discovered that I had been wrong about nothing making it through the winter: some of the mint seems to be returning. It was pleasing to see the plants in their pots afterward, but there's lots of room for more, including a new rosemary or two. The neighbors seemed to appreciate my efforts, too, recommending another garden place (the Wagon Wheel, in either Waltham or Lexington) to check out.
[1] S'chach is whatever one uses for the "roof" of a sukkah, a booth used during the festival of Sukkot for eating (and sometimes sleeping, and otherwise living) in. This is always something that doesn't completely block the sky, and originally grew in the ground, such as tree branches, corn stalks, pieces of wood, etc.
The rain this morning is perfect for the repotted plants. I also love to see green trees with their trunks and branches darkened from the rain.
I brought most of the lettuce-y plants into the office, planning to have a salad bar on the hoof, and found that I'd completely overestimated the amount of dirt I have here. *sigh*
I suppose I'll bring them home, repot them, and bring them back. It's annoying, since I could've done this already. (I could bring more dirt into the office, but I already have an open bag at home, and I'd rather not bring that, for the obvious reasons.)
I managed to get a splinter in the palm of my hand. I hope I can get it out soon. Perhaps I should sand the railing on the porch.
There was a surprise at Manhoney's: they had a large bird cage set up, with two kinds of birds in it: baby quail meandering around the bottom of the cage, and tiny finches with jewel-tone accents flitting around the tops, making pleasant sounds.
The line "all things green and glorious" came to me. If James Herriot were a gardener, perhaps that would've been a title of his.
I looked at the huge selection of thyme varieties, and started thinking about Edward Eager adventures in the time garden. I wonder what kind of adventure the Natterjack would've given them had the kids picked elfin thyme?
May 10 herb plant sale sponsored by The New England Unit of the Herb Society of America, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society headquarters at Elm Bank, 900 Washington St. (Route 16), Wellesley (www.masshort.org). Proceeds help support the group's 8,000-square-foot Teaching Herb Garden at Elm Bank. They will offer 19 kinds of basil for sale, and hundreds of other herbs.
- 2 jewel mix nasturtium
- 3 sweet basil
- 1 italian oregano
- 1 arugula
- 2 chive
- 1 French lavender (*not* freedom lavender, thankyouverymuch)
- 1 peppermint
- 1 lemon balm
- 1 red butterhead lettuce
- 6 pack Boston lettuce
- 6 pack ruby leaf lettuce
Also some pots, dishes to put under them, and 2 feet of dirt (yes, that's 2 cubic feet of dirt, but somehow it's always called 2 feet. This mixing of linear and cubic measurements is frustrating to me.).
When I got home, I finally took the s'chach [1] down (only how many months before the *next* Sukkot?), getting dust in my eyes only a couple of times. With it down, the rest of the sukkah frame began to look more like a usable pergola, which got me thinking about all I could do with the space. I could hang flowers from the rafters, have some trailing plants, perhaps, make it much more green than I've managed in years past, when it's been some herbs and a lone tomato plant. I imagined having a tea in my 'garden'... Of course, this will take time and money, and who knows if my enthusiasm will last long enough to implement it all. However, I would like to get the porch more usable than last year, when I didn't spend as much time as I'd like out there. Perhaps it is time to get nicer chairs, and a real table, too. (How much of this is grandiose scheming? I don't know.)
I repotted all of the plants I'd planned to have at home, and discovered that I had been wrong about nothing making it through the winter: some of the mint seems to be returning. It was pleasing to see the plants in their pots afterward, but there's lots of room for more, including a new rosemary or two. The neighbors seemed to appreciate my efforts, too, recommending another garden place (the Wagon Wheel, in either Waltham or Lexington) to check out.
[1] S'chach is whatever one uses for the "roof" of a sukkah, a booth used during the festival of Sukkot for eating (and sometimes sleeping, and otherwise living) in. This is always something that doesn't completely block the sky, and originally grew in the ground, such as tree branches, corn stalks, pieces of wood, etc.
The rain this morning is perfect for the repotted plants. I also love to see green trees with their trunks and branches darkened from the rain.
I brought most of the lettuce-y plants into the office, planning to have a salad bar on the hoof, and found that I'd completely overestimated the amount of dirt I have here. *sigh*
I suppose I'll bring them home, repot them, and bring them back. It's annoying, since I could've done this already. (I could bring more dirt into the office, but I already have an open bag at home, and I'd rather not bring that, for the obvious reasons.)
I managed to get a splinter in the palm of my hand. I hope I can get it out soon. Perhaps I should sand the railing on the porch.
There was a surprise at Manhoney's: they had a large bird cage set up, with two kinds of birds in it: baby quail meandering around the bottom of the cage, and tiny finches with jewel-tone accents flitting around the tops, making pleasant sounds.
The line "all things green and glorious" came to me. If James Herriot were a gardener, perhaps that would've been a title of his.
I looked at the huge selection of thyme varieties, and started thinking about Edward Eager adventures in the time garden. I wonder what kind of adventure the Natterjack would've given them had the kids picked elfin thyme?
May 10 herb plant sale sponsored by The New England Unit of the Herb Society of America, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society headquarters at Elm Bank, 900 Washington St. (Route 16), Wellesley (www.masshort.org). Proceeds help support the group's 8,000-square-foot Teaching Herb Garden at Elm Bank. They will offer 19 kinds of basil for sale, and hundreds of other herbs.
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bird geek here
Date: 2003-05-08 09:44 am (UTC)I love that aviary - it's such a nice addition to the greenspace.
Re: bird geek here
Date: 2003-05-08 09:51 am (UTC)And they are very cute, indeed. The finches were pretty nice, too.
I don't think the aviary was there last time I went in; any idea when they put it in?
Re: bird geek here
Date: 2003-05-08 10:18 am (UTC)Perhaps there were also quail chicks ("baby quail") in there? I haven't been in a while . . . I only remember pint-sized (well, more like half-pint, if you want to be literal) fully feathered adult birds.
Re: bird geek here
Date: 2003-05-08 10:29 am (UTC)Re: bird geek here
Date: 2003-05-08 10:43 am (UTC)