Project Gone Wild

Ok...so when Rusty said those words that always send a shiver through my spine, "I've been thinking...", I knew we were in for yet another half completed frustrating project. After rolling my eyes and audibly sighing, I waited for the proverbial "boom" to drop. Imagine my surprise to find out that all he wanted to do was create a few small gardening spaces in the backyard.

It appears that he has been researching through the book "Square Foot Gardening" by Mel Bartholomew. Subtitled: "A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work". This book encourages minimally intrusive family sized gardens. (The exact words I needed to hear to support this venture...minimally intrusive)

We now have two different four foot by four foot gardens in our backyard that are actually yielding vegetables.At first it was only four heads of lettuce...and after tallying the soil price, the wood price, trellis cost, etc. - I determined these were the most expensive heads of lettuce in all of Wake County.

Goodness knows I've done my fair share of scoffing at new fangled projects and ideas, and I'm certainly loath to admit when I'm wrong but just a few days after the start of summer...Happy Summer Solistice by the way...I am thrilled we are harvesting herbs and vegetables. I'll be very excited about tomatoes and the late harvest of green tomatoes...for cooking a delectible dish, fried green tomatoes!

So, to Rusty, my apologies for doubting, to friends and fans of the blog...try this gardening technique (for more info. try this website- http://www.squarefootgardening.com/).

Short Update, currently on my iPod:

The Eels "I Need Some Sleep" - Haunting and beautiful, nepenthic in many ways...

Dashboard Confessional "As Lovers Go" - Kinda bubble gum pop, but with a hint of longing!

Kendall Payne "Rollercoaster" and "Scratch" - Kendall Payne is a former Contemporary Christian singer going for the secular folk audience. Much of the album is angst ridden, but these two songs are truly sublime.