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Gardening in north Idaho
May. 2nd, 2009 08:06 pmThis year is the first year I can have a full gardening cycle. Last year, I was only able to start mid-summer, and managed to wind up having only lettuce. This year, it's different.
I have cilantro, lettuce, spinach, and turnips planted. The turnips have germinated(I planted them 2 weeks ago), and I see wee little leaves above the soil now.
I still have beans, peppers, catnip, and other stuff I can't remember to put down. Typically, the last frost is mid-May, so in 2 weeks(finals!), I will plant the rest of the seeds. My roommate loves tomatoes, so we're going to have a planter with them on the front porch.
And, because I'm a geek, I have a blueprint in Visio, to correct scale, of my garden's 2 plots. Echoes of my sister come to mind, who also had a blueprint of my room and her furniture in it, the day I moved out of that room to college.
It rained today(after I watered). Happy plants.
I have salvaged some pieces of wood from a pallet, and I will be creating a loom from them, I hope. I will need to do a lot more smoothing work, which may not be worth it. In which case, I'll find a construction site, scavenge wood and start over. I had to purchase a crosscut saw and some sandpaper for this project. I may wind up needing a drill, in which case I want to find a bit brace drill. Power drills are great, but they have the bad habit of needing electricity, which isn't always available(plus they are more expensive).
It's interesting working with my hands. At least, compared to my typical work, which is on a keyboard, writing software. It's not romantic, in the spooky "oooo nature" sense that you might get from certain Artists. But it is very satisfying, in a hard work kind of way. You know you've done something, and that thing is solid, when you are done. That's a satisfaction you just don't get from most software development. I guess part of why I work with embedded systems is to be able to have that visceral It's Alive! feeling from my work.
I have cilantro, lettuce, spinach, and turnips planted. The turnips have germinated(I planted them 2 weeks ago), and I see wee little leaves above the soil now.
I still have beans, peppers, catnip, and other stuff I can't remember to put down. Typically, the last frost is mid-May, so in 2 weeks(finals!), I will plant the rest of the seeds. My roommate loves tomatoes, so we're going to have a planter with them on the front porch.
And, because I'm a geek, I have a blueprint in Visio, to correct scale, of my garden's 2 plots. Echoes of my sister come to mind, who also had a blueprint of my room and her furniture in it, the day I moved out of that room to college.
It rained today(after I watered). Happy plants.
I have salvaged some pieces of wood from a pallet, and I will be creating a loom from them, I hope. I will need to do a lot more smoothing work, which may not be worth it. In which case, I'll find a construction site, scavenge wood and start over. I had to purchase a crosscut saw and some sandpaper for this project. I may wind up needing a drill, in which case I want to find a bit brace drill. Power drills are great, but they have the bad habit of needing electricity, which isn't always available(plus they are more expensive).
It's interesting working with my hands. At least, compared to my typical work, which is on a keyboard, writing software. It's not romantic, in the spooky "oooo nature" sense that you might get from certain Artists. But it is very satisfying, in a hard work kind of way. You know you've done something, and that thing is solid, when you are done. That's a satisfaction you just don't get from most software development. I guess part of why I work with embedded systems is to be able to have that visceral It's Alive! feeling from my work.
