Black and crumbly
Apr. 9th, 2008 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI've been out in the yard, doing stuff - and it occurs to me, y'know, I don't really garden. Well, I can't, I don't have a garden. All I've got is a concrete yard with a lot of pots and a couple of mock-beds in it. And yes, I grow a few things, largely herbs and the odd vegetable (and rhubarb - is rhubarb a fruit or a vegetable? Botanically speaking? If there's a difference?); but mostly, what I do is make compost.
I love making compost. I chuck Stuff into one of the bins, and a year or so later I have lovely black crumbly compost, it's really clever. The challenge is what to do with it all, as I don't have soil to improve. More pots! More pots! I should really make a more organised attempt to discover which veggies do or don't flourish in pots - but I am the opposite of organised, and I don't suppose pure homemade compost is the ideal medium anyway for most veggies, and I don't want to get into the science of all that because it could only lead to the importing of topsoil and sand and whatever more I'd need to mix the ideal medium, which would only exacerbate my problem of quantity.
The alternative, of course, is to break through the concrete and make a proper garden. Every year, I think I might do that. Every year, so far, I don't...
Also, I have been sprouting beans to make beansprouts, and I seem to have discovered how to waterproof muslin. This is not an advantage, in the circumstances...
I love making compost. I chuck Stuff into one of the bins, and a year or so later I have lovely black crumbly compost, it's really clever. The challenge is what to do with it all, as I don't have soil to improve. More pots! More pots! I should really make a more organised attempt to discover which veggies do or don't flourish in pots - but I am the opposite of organised, and I don't suppose pure homemade compost is the ideal medium anyway for most veggies, and I don't want to get into the science of all that because it could only lead to the importing of topsoil and sand and whatever more I'd need to mix the ideal medium, which would only exacerbate my problem of quantity.
The alternative, of course, is to break through the concrete and make a proper garden. Every year, I think I might do that. Every year, so far, I don't...
Also, I have been sprouting beans to make beansprouts, and I seem to have discovered how to waterproof muslin. This is not an advantage, in the circumstances...