This morning I woke up early and puttered in the garden. I staked the gooseberries, harvested some stuff, and took pictures. I’ll probably have to stake the gooseberries again, since I wasn’t very systematic. The Jahns Prairie has two branches, one of which was crossed over the other like a bow, so it clearly needed uncrossing; hopefully I’ve stuck it at an appropriate angle. Its other stem was perfectly straight up, so I left it alone. Pixwell has 3 branches; I tried to straighten it out a little; I need to go back and stare at it again to make sure it’s the way I want it. Leepared was the most obnoxious to stake; it is just bent funny and with sufficient bendiness that it just pulls the stake at an angle. I had it straight earlier, but the ground is all fluffy and I notice that by the time I took the picture, it was bent again. It will probably take some time to get right.
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Comments
urbandogsgarden wrote:
It’s fun to putter :) Those are really large gooseberry plants you got. Nice.
Posted on 22 May 09 (almost 5 years ago)
cristyn wrote:
I suppose I should point out that the dogwood branches that I’m using as stakes loom much larger than the actual gooseberries in the photo…
Posted on 22 May 09 (almost 5 years ago)
urbandogsgarden wrote:
Well, I won’t tell if you don’t. Seriously, my raspberry, grape and blackberry plants were about 6" high when I got them. It looked like random twigs had just dropped from the sky into my patch. Of course now they’re taking over the yard. . .
Posted on 22 May 09 (almost 5 years ago)
netto wrote:
This is the first time I’ve heard of “puttering” as a way of getting around a garden! I guess it must be like “pootling”?
Posted on 24 May 09 (almost 4 years ago)
cristyn wrote:
@Netto: I just had to go look up “pootling.” Yeah, I guess they’re similar. Puttering is essentially working in a very slow and relaxed sort of way. So, digging a new bed is not puttering. I wouldn’t even call something like weeding puttering (but then I weed in an extremely OCD fashion). But wandering around and doing odd little jobs in an unsystematic way is puttering. Pulling one weed and then finding a volunteer seedling and transplanting it on a whim then getting distracted by something leaning funny and going and staking it: that’s puttering.
Posted on 24 May 09 (almost 4 years ago)
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