Dirty hands in the morning
By sweetdesign
@sweetdesign (5142)
United States
September 4, 2008 7:43am CST
Well such is the life of a gardener. I got started early this morning before the heat set in and transplanted some more of my seedlings. I tended to my garden and made sure everyone had water. I will be picking some more habeneros today as they are the right color now, a yellowish orange color. radishes are doing nicely in the earthbox with the basil that is so pretty. Tomato plants are perking up (was looking puny at home depot). Zucchinni is doing great and so are the bush beans. I can't wait to get that raised bed set up in the backyard and filled with yummy soil so I can take my newest seedlings and put them in thier new home, by the time we get all the soil,manure,peat and compost that we need to fill that bed the newest seedlings will be big enough to put in the garden.
We are laying the weed killing cloth today and setting up the cinders for the first bed today. We will order more cinders in October for bed #2 and then the last set of cinders in November for bed #3. It is slow going cause we don't have a truck so we have to tack on delivery charges for the cinders so we can only do one set a month. Hopefully in a week we will have hauled enough of the dirts home (in the car 5 bags at a time) that the bed will be ready for plants.
Do you like getting your hands dirty in the morning?
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
4 Sep 08
Wow, you've done a lot. I'm sure it will pay off for you handsomely.
I don't really have anything left to get my hands dirty in. My tomatoes and peppers are still producing, and the cucumber I planted just a couple of weeks ago is already flowering, so it's really just picking the produce for me now.
I did pull up the old cucumber plants that only had a few misshapen gourd-like cucumbers left on them; the rest was just dying vegetation so out they came.
Not much left for me to do but enjoy the bounty (or rather, for my husband to enjoy it).
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
4 Sep 08
yeah I have had a productive morning. I will really be getting my hands dirty once those beds are in. But I love it. I love getting my own veggies off the plants that I have started from seeds or seedlings. It is so satisfying.
I will be starting one more set of seeds today (I am addicted) that is the slicing cucumbers. I already have tiny baby seedlings coming up for the pickling cucumbers.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
4 Sep 08
Hearing all you have done and all that is growing just gives me smiles. I am cooking today, and packing for a short, two day trip. Making food for DIL because she has just been released from hospital, and son had to go back to work. Grilled chicken and pasta primavera, with alfredo sauce. I could use fresh veggies in it, but used frozen today. I will take her some canned peaches as well, and go get her a Doctor Pepper. Son will have the day off tomorrow.javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphMainContent$lbStart','')
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
4 Sep 08
Year round gardening must be fun. With sixty degree weather I am thinking thoughts of putting the garden to bed for now. I like to mow really early, and I am sure that need will continue for awhile. You lucky duck, fresh veggies year around.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
4 Sep 08
yep it is fun! Lots of work though to keep it going all year. I checked my seeds that I started a few days ago and I have teeny tiny broccoli,tomato and cucumber seedlins poking out of the ground!
I love the excitement of having baby plants coming up.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
4 Sep 08
Actually Home Depot has trucks to rent by the hour to take itmes home yourself. Not a bad pricing either. gardening sure is a lot of work the frist time around isn't it? I hate the start of the season due to all the prep work. But the rewards outweight the hard work easily once you start seeing the fruits of your labor growing nicely. Good luck as well. I get my hands dirty a few times daily as I am in and out of my gardens a lot throughout the daytime.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
5 Sep 08
I love playing in the garden dirt and getting my hands dirty. Think I don't like is it seems during the summer my finger nails never get clean. Yesterday was at the doctor's office with my son and noticed even though I had showered and washed my hands several times I still had dirt under my nails :( LOL was using a bank card to try to clean them :)
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
5 Sep 08
I know what you mean. I only have clean nails when I am working as a tax preparer and only then cause I am constantly cleaning them several times a day. I have a triple problem with it though cause I work with ceramics and get slip under my nails and I work with polymer clay and get clay under my nails.
@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
5 Sep 08
Mine are filthy lol. We just got done taking down the fig tree and moving it out of the way. We also laid our first cinder for the raised bed then it started to rain.
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
5 Sep 08
Hey mine are clean right this second but I haven't been out to the garden except to pick up cantaloupe :) Mine are clean come winter when I'm spending more time crochetting and NO time in the garden.
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I love to read about the progress of your garden and see your photos!
Personally, I don't like getting my hands dirty ever, and that is why I don't have a yard and only grow hydroponically. Since I love plants a lot, it was always a bit of a tug on my heartstrings to see people like you being able to grow lovely plants and harvest your own food. Now that I can do a bit of it without dirt, I am ecstatic and go visit my little green babies first thing when I get up to greet each new day.
My garden doesn't required much tending, but when I made the rounds this morning I took this photo:
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
4 Sep 08
I used to have a problem with my hands getting dirty also but I think that working with ceramics has helped get me past that. I have to get my hands in ceramic slip about the consistancy of mud. lol.
Now it doesn't bother me as much to get dirt on my hands. I used to wear gloves to garden now I don't have to.
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
5 Sep 08
I love getting my hands in clay! That is a wholly different matter. It is not that I am squeamish about touching dirt, either, I just don't like the little life forms that lurk in it :-( That lacewing was really beautiful, though. S/he just didn't need to stay in my home, although I probably let more bad bugs in trying to shoo the good bug out, rfl.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
5 Sep 08
That is funny. I am not overly thrilled with nasties like centipedes and milipedes especially. We have those great big black milipedes harmless but creepy.
