Dear Mom, I think I need a sign out by the garden that says, "Patience, Grasshoppah." In other words, LEAVE THE VEGETABLES IN THE GROUND UNTIL THEY ARE DONE. They're getting there! Love, Ruth
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Dear Ruth,
When you do that sign, can you make one for the mole in my garden? Make it easy to read in the dark. I saw the mole running between the raised beds. There was a big hole ( mole big) in the corner of the bed, evidence of the getaway made after it had sucked the pepper plants down into some fancy schmancy underground getaway. All the frigging pepper plants in that bed!
I was a bit wonky in reasoning while at the garden shop yesterday, and bought 12 plants. It was cheaper to buy a whole flat, even tho I only needed 6.
Well, at least I won't have to worry about pesticides in our peppers this winter... we'll have a freezer full of organic ones.
Or the mole will.
Your radish looks official, and quite edible, and I am very proud of your efforts!
Dear Mom, Well, after reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, I think that 12 plants is still pretty conservative. They had something like 50+ tomato plants! I did the same thing as you--except with jalapenos. They were the only plants I couldn't buy individually (which in an effort to have as much variety as possible I might have screwed myself out of any if there are any plant disasters, since I have only one of so many things) so I think I might have 12. At least 8. I had taken a couple out, and Ron found them and made me replant them. So we may have lots of hot peppers. But a few days ago I made the best guacamole ever made (it might have even given yours a run for its money). One of the ingredients was a freshly grilled jalapeno chopped up in it. MMMMMMM. It was amazing.
I am sorry for your mole troubles. Maybe you need a garden cat. But I can imagine that mole, all beady eyed and pinchy faced, pulling and pulling and grunting and groaning, with little droplets of mole sweat on its brow, until POP! a pepper plant. Do you think there was a mole party afterward? Do you think they made stuffed peppers and invited friends over? It would have been like those restaurants where everybody eats in the pitch black.
The moles only had a pepper leaf party. No peppers yet here either. Shoot, the plants hadn't even grown any, since it's been too cool since I planted them.
I saw a program about that pitch black restaurant. I wonder if the clients went home and made love while standing on their heads? Obviously they needed some sensory stimulation.
To me, eating in the dark is a joke that would get old before the first bite. All that crap would fall down the front of my shirt in the dark. That's already tiresome under incandescents.
The cats visit the garden every time I'm there. I don't know how the moles have gotten away from them---- unless it has to do with Gracie, who simply lies down in the garlic bed and snoozes the whole time. Lady Gray spends her whole time talking about doing something.
I think I would love your guac. And I'll bet you can pickle the hot peppers if you have too many to eat every day. Ron would love that.
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Dear Ruth,
When you do that sign, can you make one for the mole in my garden? Make it easy to read in the dark. I saw the mole running between the raised beds. There was a big hole ( mole big) in the corner of the bed, evidence of the getaway made after it had sucked the pepper plants down into some fancy schmancy underground getaway. All the frigging pepper plants in that bed!
I was a bit wonky in reasoning while at the garden shop yesterday, and bought 12 plants. It was cheaper to buy a whole flat, even tho I only needed 6.
Well, at least I won't have to worry about pesticides in our peppers this winter... we'll have a freezer full of organic ones.
Or the mole will.
Your radish looks official, and quite edible, and I am very proud of your efforts!
Love, mom xoxoo
Dear Mom,
Well, after reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, I think that 12 plants is still pretty conservative. They had something like 50+ tomato plants! I did the same thing as you--except with jalapenos. They were the only plants I couldn't buy individually (which in an effort to have as much variety as possible I might have screwed myself out of any if there are any plant disasters, since I have only one of so many things) so I think I might have 12. At least 8. I had taken a couple out, and Ron found them and made me replant them. So we may have lots of hot peppers. But a few days ago I made the best guacamole ever made (it might have even given yours a run for its money). One of the ingredients was a freshly grilled jalapeno chopped up in it. MMMMMMM. It was amazing.
I am sorry for your mole troubles. Maybe you need a garden cat. But I can imagine that mole, all beady eyed and pinchy faced, pulling and pulling and grunting and groaning, with little droplets of mole sweat on its brow, until POP! a pepper plant. Do you think there was a mole party afterward? Do you think they made stuffed peppers and invited friends over? It would have been like those restaurants where everybody eats in the pitch black.
Love,
Ruth
p.s. the jalapeno I used in the guac was from the grocery store. No peppers yet!
Dear Ruth,
The moles only had a pepper leaf party. No peppers yet here either. Shoot, the plants hadn't even grown any, since it's been too cool since I planted them.
I saw a program about that pitch black restaurant. I wonder if the clients went home and made love while standing on their heads? Obviously they needed some sensory stimulation.
To me, eating in the dark is a joke that would get old before the first bite. All that crap would fall down the front of my shirt in the dark. That's already tiresome under incandescents.
The cats visit the garden every time I'm there. I don't know how the moles have gotten away from them---- unless it has to do with Gracie, who simply lies down in the garlic bed and snoozes the whole time. Lady Gray spends her whole time talking about doing something.
I think I would love your guac. And I'll bet you can pickle the hot peppers if you have too many to eat every day. Ron would love that.
xoxox mom
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