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Puttering in the garden can go a long way toward making a weekend with no parties, excursions, movies or visits with friends seem completely worthwhile.  heck, I didn't even get much written. 

We did however, get an ugly blue waterproof tarp established over the flooring of the porch, and bought a bunch of herbs, veggies and flowers, along with some pots and a lot of potting soil.   We then spent Sunday afternoon, until well into twilight, planting, planning, and setting up nets and hanging baskets.  So we now have containers of:
Mint
Peppermint
Spearmint
Lemon Balm
Basil
Lettuce
String Beans
Tomatoes
Habenero Peppers
Cruel Thai Peppers
Bell Peppers (desultory, more out of tradition than any expectation of result)
Nasturtums
and a few other plants.

No wonder we were exhausted that evening.  There's still a lot of arranging to do, but at least things are off to a good start.
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Sunday we spent some time in our porch garden, even though as soon as we opened the door the wind came up and the wind-chill factor dropped temperatures enormously. But we persevered...well, mostly [livejournal.com profile] racerxmachina persevered, and I merely helped between dashing inside to get warm. But we did get things cleaned out, pulled out some old, sour mint, divided some chives, put icky smelly stuff in some pots, and then started thinking about what we want to do for our garden this year.

Here's some of our ideas:

  • Mint of course- even the good mint looks past its peak, so more mint for the summer's mint julips and mohitos.

  • Lettuce: up on a porch where its safe from snails, we can do a couple long boxes of them.

  • Tomatoes: we can never have too many fresh tomatoes- hopefully we'll get an even bigger crop this year.

  • Beans: we're thinking of either stringing them up to the top of the porch, or putting them in hanging baskets.

  • Basil. Because you can never have enough fresh basil.

  • Oregeno: our pasta dishes will be excellent this year.


I was going to do an LJ poll for what else to plant, but you know, that should be enough. Especially since RxM is going to want to put in flowers as well. And it was refreshing to get out in the sunlight and fresh air for a bit.

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