5 2008-07-24T02:19:16+10:00 false After a long heart to heart with the wife, the household harmony has been restored, and new life has been introduced to both our relationship and our garden. Perhaps the most important thing we learned from all this is that just because you're not doing anything wrong, doesn't mean you're doing everything right. Harmony is important to me; I seek a life of balance and strive to keep the peace. Yet, when part of that life dips down too far on one side, the natural impulse is to overcorrect, which swings the balance too far the other way, and forces me to overcorrect again. And just when I think I've managed to attain perfect equilibrium, I'm faced with another set of complications, and a new set of challenges to rise (or fall) to. The same is paralleled in the garden. Am I watering too much? Am I watering too little? Does this get too much sun, or too much shade. Is the blossom-end drop due to the temperature at night being too high, or is it because there's not enough nitrogen in the soil, or too little? The doubt, questions, and frustrations are enough to make my head spin, and the constant talk is enough to drive my wife insane. So now comes a new balancing act... my squash have all ceased production, damned be the squash vine borer, but my peppers and tomatoes have just started to produce (hooray for...something). And my wife's love of a good tomato, and my newfound silence on the puzzles the garden has to offer, will allow this to be the perfect gift for her once it has ripened. I suppose, in life, as in the garden, what grows around, comes around. 5 false 24141 false false false Entry 3667 User 2008-07-23T10:00:00+10:00 DMY 27312 Public 2008-07-24T02:19:16+10:00 3667 Overcast 92 F