Thursday 11 April 2013

Beginnings

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This is how I spent yesterday afternoon - an impromptu, but much appreciated, seed starting session. To be honest, I didn't really know whether or not I was going to keep the allotment this year - but plodding along, persisting and stubborn, and here we are - at the beginning of another growing year. And I seem to be starting seeds off; I seem to have made plans for extra allotment space, and I seem to have got lists of arborists ready to call. Maybe I'll get the seeds in the ground and maybe they'll grow and maybe after all this I will get some onions to cook and call it a going concern. It doesn't matter; the process of working in the dirt, planting the seed and watching it grow, if at all - well, honestly, it's the best medicine you could have.

Zoned out and tired through in a happy, not thinking-too-much about anything kind of way I feel as though I am productive. And then I get to watch the fireworks when those little seeds decide to work their magic.

I don't even mind giving up my living space to make room for these new babies. They are totally worth it.

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4 comments:

  1. Our dining room table is partly taken up with seeds in trays too - I do hope they come up and that *this time* we can stay here a while and get a garden growing.

    I do like your planting tool thingy (I'm down with the technical terms ;) - I've been using various motley recycled plastic trays (that fruit or veg has been bought in - awful - why can't they stop with all the plastic :( but that tool thing would be better.

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  2. Yeah the soil block maker - one investment I'm so glad I made. Never regretted buying that.

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  3. It is a wonderful thing to play in the dirt!!! I am SO excited to begin working in the garden..Tomorrow is supposed to warm up a bit, and I am going to start the process of spreading composted manure through my gardens..Sounds fun, eh??? I wrenched my back opening the front door, (yeah, I know!) so hopefully, it will not be too bothersome to do the work I need to do!

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  4. That sounds like good old fashioned fun to me. Warm here, and windy - such a late spring we can literally count leaves on trees on one hand! Hope your back gets better - there's not an inconvenience like it :S

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