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much nattering about plants
Dec. 18th, 2011 07:23 pmMy toilet overflowed Saturday afternoon, leaving water laced with fecal matter all over my bathroom floor. Needless to say, this wrecked my plans to spend the rest of Saturday washing dishes and generally doing kitchen stuff. It was the perfect end to the week, which seemed to be designed to make me feel incompetent and generally without value.
Friday afternoon I made myself come up with a list of good things that had happened during the week. That helped. Later I discovered that my paperwhites had started blooming and my bedroom was full of delicious perfume. That helped more!
Then on Saturday afternoon, while taking out trash from the Toilet Incident, I discovered that I had a couple of Red Russian kale plants growing in my lawn. This was not as strange as it could be, because two years ago I had planted one in a corner of my garden and then instead of pulling it out at the end of the season I just let it be. It spent the summer as an untidy flowering heap that marked the northern end of the garden. What was surprising to me was that I had a second generation sprouting in the fall, and not the spring. I was also surprised that it was clearly a Red Russian kale seedling, given that I'd made no attempt to preserve seed purity. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that RR is B. rapa and most of the rest of my Brassicas are oleracea so the chance of crossbreeding is slight. Also, I appear to be the only person for blocks around that has a vegetable garden. I don't understand this. ( Read more... )
Friday afternoon I made myself come up with a list of good things that had happened during the week. That helped. Later I discovered that my paperwhites had started blooming and my bedroom was full of delicious perfume. That helped more!
Then on Saturday afternoon, while taking out trash from the Toilet Incident, I discovered that I had a couple of Red Russian kale plants growing in my lawn. This was not as strange as it could be, because two years ago I had planted one in a corner of my garden and then instead of pulling it out at the end of the season I just let it be. It spent the summer as an untidy flowering heap that marked the northern end of the garden. What was surprising to me was that I had a second generation sprouting in the fall, and not the spring. I was also surprised that it was clearly a Red Russian kale seedling, given that I'd made no attempt to preserve seed purity. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that RR is B. rapa and most of the rest of my Brassicas are oleracea so the chance of crossbreeding is slight. Also, I appear to be the only person for blocks around that has a vegetable garden. I don't understand this. ( Read more... )
