Obviously, I failed on Day 1.
However, in an effort to make up for it, I'm just going to go ahead and post more than once! Since it's already the 5th of May, I probably won't go so far as to post five full times, but I have to start somewhere, right?
I forgot that spring in Massachusetts is gorgeous. There are flowers everywhere and the weather just makes you happy to be alive. I don't know how I survived 18 springs in Vermont,where "spring" is just a euphemism for Mud Season. It snows, then it rains and the ground gets absolutely mud-soaked, and then it's summer. So while I will exhort the virtues of Vermont for 75% of the year, Mud Season counts for the 25% during which I would caution you to avoid it at all costs unless you really enjoy having broken axels on your car.
I digress.
All that to say, spring in MA is perfect. So perfect, in fact, that I chose this year to finally plant a garden. For the first time in my life, I was more than excited to trek to Home Depot. I was probably too excited, because as I went through the checkout line the cashier remarked, "Wow, someone's going to be busy for awhile..."
She was right. I turned soil, dumped topsoil, raked, added garden soil, weeded, and finally planted for a good three hours straight. But it paid off!
I planted green and red peppers, lettuce, carrots, broccoli, strawberries, and cantaloupe. Mentioning that I planted cantaloupe led a friend to exclaim, "Cantaloupe comes from the ground??"
Who knew?
Hopefully by the end of the summer, our vegetable shish-kebabs will have been homegrown!
1 comment:
I'm jealous of your garden space (and the time to plant it . . .!). :)
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