01/03/2015 Happy Days.

March!

It feels like Spring is marching on.

Seedlings are growing: well, most of them. The tomatoes and chillies are doing fine.

The novelty of the bunch the Goji berry is harder to grow. Out of 3 seeds, 1 made it. It will take a year and an half before it can make it to the big outdoors. The dream plan is a little bush of healthy Goji berries to be picked in 3 years. Patience is the essence. Like asparagus it is not something you can enjoy the very same year you plant them. It's a future investment. The Baby that is making it so far will be very tended, I can assure you.

Last week I had to sow again the tender stem broccoli for all the seedlings grew long, drooped, and wilted. Now, I am trying a prop: Toilet paper tube as a frame, cut to specific length. All the seeds of broccoli done something so fast, that I put their frame on today. Hopefully they will carry on growing strong this time around.

I replanted some winter lettuce again today for the same reason. I also gave a try to little gem lettuce, which was planted outside. Cross fingers. In a slug plagued garden, I shall grow lettuce. The fight and dream is on.

However the main sowing happened outdoor with Root veg: Two types of carrots, Nantes 5 and Chantenay, Beetroot (Crosbys-Egyptian), Parsnip (White Gem). Lots of anticipation and learning to be had: I never grew any of them before. I am a pack instruction learner so far until I can adjust that to be an experienced grower.

Last but not least are the fancy trial: I am giving another chance to the 'Pea Tendrilla' which totally fail to appear last year. Just a single pea in a pot. We will see. The other is a cucumber: Marketmore 76. A gift. The surprise in a seed.

Spring means renewal. Leaving behind the harsh winter.
I had a hard winter, which I cannot wait to leave behind me.
Never lose hope for better days. For they do come.

There will always be a bug in your path.
Let's call it whatever, locust, slug, or humbug!
They love snacking on your roots and leaves.
They love what you have and want it.
They will do whatever to get it, regardless of morals.
Let's say I was plagued, yet survived.

For they just had to knack it off.
Call it:  bad karma biting tails.

Oh Happy Days!