As you can see, we’ve decided on a small garden this year.
This is the lower garden, not on Cooter Hollow Proper, on a neighbor’s land, accessible via hike through the woods. It’s the one we water with My Native’s Amazing Hose Technique. Right now, it’s a (modest) pile of dirt. I’ll let you know if it starts writing novels or does something equally noteworthy.
Fishing season has opened and the ferns are up, which means we shared a recent dinner of smoked trout and fiddleheads. Which means all of this is finally starting to seem worth it. Sometimes. There’s still the whole “hold it or go in the woods” issue, to be discussed in further detail later, if you have the guts for it.
And lastly, when we experienced our first gardening season at the Hollow, two years ago, I was yapping to townspeople about my newly-installed asparagus bed, where to put it, how to build it. I was told, with some regularity, that I’d never yield anything, that it was a waste of effort. To they I would like to say: stuff it. These beautiful fat purple spears are plying their own course to our side of the ground, and doing so with zest and abundance.
Wow. Your blog and your writing is great! Keep up the great posts.
Asparagus is always such a welcome sight! It’s our favorite vegetable, and arrives just as we’re running out of veg from last summer’s bounty…
Thanks again for the link, and this may be the best blog category title ever outside of an actual medical text. Many many congrats on the spears of your labor – beautiful!
p.s – I may have gotten you mixed up with other people to whose blog I know seem to be subscribed – you are or are not Evan and Gabby – if you’re not you’re pretty damned close but no Cuban. You still have my email at any rate…
Happy plantings!