Gardening!
As I mentioned briefly in my last post, E spent some time in our new little garden plot on Sunday. Yep, we decided to purchase a 16' x 16' plot in the Southside Community Garden located at W & 5th streets, about 10 blocks from our condo. This particular garden is only a year old, and it's part of a growing number of sites run by the Sacramento Community Garden Coaltion. All tools are provided at the site, which is nice, and water is provided by the city all for the yearly fee of $80. Considering that we're here in lovely northern CA, we should be able to garden year 'round!
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that E should be able to garden year 'round...
I must admit, although I love to enjoy the fruits of his labor, I'm not so crazy about doing the actual gardening work myself. There's just something about getting dirty and sweaty in the hot sun that doesn't appeal to me. I'm sure I'll lend a hand from time to time, but luckily E is more than happy to assume responsibility for the bulk of the gardening (that was sort of a pre-requisite for our purchasing the plot this year).
Anyway, we made a trip to Home Depot on Sunday afternoon (BAD IDEA!!!) and finally emerged from the hordes and the lines with some of our desired items: 2 roma tomato plants, 1 easy girl tomato plant (love the name!), 1 pepper plant of some kind (can't remember the variety), 1 English lavender plant, 1 mint plant, 1 rosemary plant, and packages of seeds for pole beans, cucumbers, cilantro, and beets. Home Depot had a rather sparse offering for seeds and absolutely no tomato "cages," but E found a better supply at Target, which also happens to be only 8 blocks or so from the garden (Home Depot is much farther away). He added to our collection with seeds for chive and radishes, but we still need to find some basil plants somewhere (Thai basil & sweet basil are both on our list).
Currently in the ground, then, are the plants and some cilantro and chive seeds. Can't wait to see how it all grows!!!
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that E should be able to garden year 'round...
I must admit, although I love to enjoy the fruits of his labor, I'm not so crazy about doing the actual gardening work myself. There's just something about getting dirty and sweaty in the hot sun that doesn't appeal to me. I'm sure I'll lend a hand from time to time, but luckily E is more than happy to assume responsibility for the bulk of the gardening (that was sort of a pre-requisite for our purchasing the plot this year).
Anyway, we made a trip to Home Depot on Sunday afternoon (BAD IDEA!!!) and finally emerged from the hordes and the lines with some of our desired items: 2 roma tomato plants, 1 easy girl tomato plant (love the name!), 1 pepper plant of some kind (can't remember the variety), 1 English lavender plant, 1 mint plant, 1 rosemary plant, and packages of seeds for pole beans, cucumbers, cilantro, and beets. Home Depot had a rather sparse offering for seeds and absolutely no tomato "cages," but E found a better supply at Target, which also happens to be only 8 blocks or so from the garden (Home Depot is much farther away). He added to our collection with seeds for chive and radishes, but we still need to find some basil plants somewhere (Thai basil & sweet basil are both on our list).
Currently in the ground, then, are the plants and some cilantro and chive seeds. Can't wait to see how it all grows!!!
posted by jms | 3:48 PM
2 Comments:
Congrats on the garden! I have to say I'm not much of a gardener either. Hope you have a great weekend and see you soon!!!
Hi there,
I read your blog occasionally through the Sac Top 25. I too just got a plot at the community garden. Hope to see you there sometime--I really like what you have to say on this site, so I'm sure we'd get along in person!
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