As the Spindle Turns . . .

I'm cutting this loose today, and avoiding talking about my so far HORRID new year with yes, ANTS. I am so depressed and demoralized by this at the moment that I can't say more.

I barely had what you'd call a garden this year. Again, flowers did better than food, which doesn't bode well for my long-term survival, but oh well; I'll have something nice to look at. Literally HUNDREDS of passionflowers on this collection of uprooted and exiled vines in a plastic pot with almost no soil. A few late Scarlett O'Hara morning glories. And oh yeah--remember I said I thought I'd finally sprouted some lovage? Well, I got so wishful-thinkingly confident that I actually ate a little bit of it, and it turned out to be marigolds. Some alyssum, and of course hollyhocks, as well as the roses and jasmine. Almost no gardenias. The violets are blooming now--my favorites.

Right now I have a nice little bed of arugula. I survived the whole summer on purslane, which never gave up. I've never had so much, and so vigorous. I hope it's as good for you as they say it is!

And I had the regrown green onions and herbs, and a dandelion.

A couple of weeks ago I bought one of those ridiculous "living lettuces" (a butter lettuce) in a plastic clamshell, because it was only 80 cents more than the lettuce I usually buy, and I figured maybe if it had a root system already it might actually grow back too, like the onions. It's growing a little at the moment, but it's still cold and wet, so we shall see. If it doesn't work, I'm only out eighty cents and the shame of a plastic clamshell.

I had a few beans, and two very small Armenian cucumbers. And that was about it.


🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱GARDEN COUNTER🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

1 leftover squash seeds c. July 10?

2 cuthas 2 very small July 7

3 anaheim peppers yellow squash July 6

4 Calypso beans July 3 July 20

5 compost---

6 ---compost

7 unplanted

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beets
7/7
two pathetic beet sprouts

CWB
7/8(?)

Connecticut Wonder Beans 92

arugula a bit

I need someone to come and positively ID the sow thistles so I can eat them too. They grow like crazy!