Week 3: The Horror! The Horror!

This week started with a wonderful post on the Facebook link to the blog. It came from my best friend since I was 12 who has a very, very successful traditional veggie garden. Katherine wrote:

"LOL Zil, you make me laugh. Blue watering cans are not 'nancy boy' - only pink ones are. Blue ones are so manly they can even earn you a free tractor in certain parts of 'Merica. *see footnote for Terms and conditions. My watering can is green - like my thumb  Regarding the non appearance of little veggie babies - have patience plant-dad-to-be; I've noticed that sometimes seeds take a little longer than the packet says to come up - especially if you planted them slightly deeper than advised. Also, never mind the watering, I hope you are chatting to and loving those little seeds every day. I'm kidding. But not really - plants respond REALLY well if you talk to them and love them. For real. Try telling them how excited you are to meet them and maybe they'll come up faster. You might even want to get in there and plant kisses all over that stinky tray - planting kisses makes happy plants! (Ok, that last part I really am kidding about) One last thing; does that box have drainage? I know it's a really 'gardening 101' thing to ask and I'm sure you've thought of it. But just in case you haven't - drill some holes in the bottom asap or your plants will just rot. Unless the instructions say otherwise, but I can't see why they would ...

 *sorry, no tractor, I just completely made that up. Besides, your watering can has little blue spots on it, nancy boy." 


So... apparently I am as bad at this as I was saying. We had no drainage. We had wrapped the box in plastic at the bottom in case the table it is on collapsed. The plastic had no holes. I'm retarded. When we cut holes into the plastic at the font corners, water poured out. Not too badly, but enough to have me realizing that Katherine saved our garden. And in the nick of time.

So we sliced the plastic open to make sure we wouldn't have any more drainage issues.

That was the most exciting thing that happened this week with the garden. I have taken Katherine's advice and now as soon as I get home I open the kitchen door and talk to the plants-to-be. I also leave the door open all evening so the plants feel like part of the family.

This would all be fine except for one thing. We have grown something. A huuuuuuuuuuge amount of flies. Millions of them. I even made my own fly catcher to try and get rid of them. So far: not one fly caught. I really do suck at this.

I'm starting to think I have a black thumb. Rest assured however, dear reader, that we will persevere until we have as crop of delicious veggies! Stay with me. We can use all the support we can get.


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If you would like to see some more of Katherine's writing, you can check out her blog at: 

http://tworandfifty.blogspot.com

She really is brilliant.

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