Tree Man

 

Silly peeps!  Did you think I did all of this work myself?  Sure, I may be the brains but never underestimate… the brawn!

Here is my hunky tree man boyfriend helping me out at the new garden on South Street.

Finally a place to really try out the succotash (corn, red scarlet beans, pumpkin).  I don’t know what kind of pumpkin we have here; my friend Maggie grew some of her own pumpkins and gave me one, so I kept it all summer ’til there was not much left but seeds.  Thanks Mags, they have been sprouting like crazy.

But of course the ground wasn’t perfect, and Dan couldn’t rest until he uprooted the white whale, a probably-decades-old demon buried a couple feet down.  At least the corn can breathe now.

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Spring ’10

FINALLY!  I have seen the light, and all I needed was my voodoo snow man this year.

So I have one season of guerrillaing under my belt, and a winter’s worth of wishing and hoping and thinking and praying.  The question for this season is, where to plant?!?  I am sad to say I don’t think I can haul my little old lady cart to 6th and Washington regularly now that I’ve moved to Graduate Hospital…

Been considering the ground next to the McDonald’s or Rite Aid at Broad and Christian, or the Marian Anderson Rec Center.  Any suggestions or requests would be appreciated, peeps.

But in the meantime, my backyard adventures include:

sooo much cauliflower… I thinned it out

tomatoes, red scarlet beans, corn, black eyed susan

green onion

sunflower                                                    leek

compost … does anyone have a lawn mower I can use to chop this up?

… and pansiessss!

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