tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081All in a Garden GreenCamilleCamille2012-06-11T03:17:25Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:238039Garden Garden Garden2012-06-11T03:15:32Z2012-06-11T03:17:25ZD&D downstairs...tiredpublic0Things are going well. Been getting plenty of rain, got plenty of slug stuff to keep the rotten little slimy gits from eating absolutely everything in sight. They ate all the purple kohlrabi, have shredded my iris foliage and cutleaf coneflower leaves, and as I discovered today, completely ate my Canadian Ginger. This pisses me off some... I will have to make sure to redouble my efforts on keeping the anti-slug stuff sprinkled around. There are good moments, though...<br /><img align="right" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-OYrw0gtBV8s/T9VcDr1u8eI/AAAAAAAAEyc/GC6JUgFqpww/s400/DSC_2564.jpg" /><br />My 'Enchanted One' bearded iris has one flower stalk, 4 buds, all beautiful. Lemon scented, ruffly, yellow and purple and peach and blue. Doesn't get much better than this.<br /><br />The potatoes have been buried as deeply as they're going to be, and I've hayed them in. Hoping for good blooms, and then lots and lots of tubers later! The second half of the garden is not doing so well... the peas are growing nice and tall, but aren't really clinging to the trellis. I still have a mere 4 lettuce plants, the spinach isn't doing much, no sign of more carrots from when I re-seeded a week ago, the chard is still tiny... My borage is growing well, though, and the onions appear to at least be doing what they should be doing at this point. Perhaps will just have to start with seedlings in future years, if the bed stays where it is... really it'd be better on the other side of the driveway... depends on how well I can keep the pots watered, I suppose.<br /><br />The "fruit" tomatoes are both planted now. 'Pineapple' is taking off like a shot, and the little 'Garden Peach' that Ruth gave me is finally in its own pot, after the pouring rain last week finally moved off.<br /><br />Everything has a nice thick topping of compost now too. Brought a trailer load of our wonderful surf n' turf compost (cow poo and seafood bits; nothing better for amending the soil!) home from work Saturday, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kurlon.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kurlon.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kurlon</b></a></span> helped me shovel it off. While working, I just mentioned to him to please not clock me in the head with his shovel... "Yeah," said he, "that would be an awkward police report... 'So, why exactly did you hit your wife in the head with your shovel?' 'Well, officer... I just got tired of dealing with her shit...'"<br /><br />Yeeeeeeep. ;)<br /><br />Everything looks fabulous, though. So happy. So tired... <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/Garden2012#5752605227560956082">New photos of the garden start here, I think.</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=238039" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:237095Relaxing Weekend2012-05-31T02:54:12Z2012-05-31T02:54:12ZMST3K downstairs...tiredpublic0Mostly. I think I relaxed for real sometime around 4:30 on Saturday afternoon, during one of several naps...<br /><br />Arrived onsite at Panteria earlier than I'd hoped I would, helped Max & Mickel finish setting up the Taj, and had a lovely dinner, fire, and starwatching with everybody. There were a few shooting stars, and lots and lots of satellites swooshing overhead. A beautiful evening.<br /><br />Did not sleep well, for some reason, Friday night. Bah. Made for an out-of-it (and apparently slightly cranky) Camille the next morning. Fencing was at 11. That was the happy thought of the AM. Breakfast was good, I chased a bird into the crabapple tree across the way (an <a href="http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/558/_/American_Redstart.aspx">American Restart</a>, a pair of them!), attempted to sit and be calm for a while, failed, and took a walk around camp. Helped Frenya set up the fencing lists at 11, got my gear, headed back, did some FENCING. I needed to stab people. We did a few authorizations; neither one really had a firm grip on the rules, but we gave one guy a provisional. Outright failed the other guy, which I felt a little badly about, but he had no clue... nobody in his area (Mountain Freehold?) to practice with, but he hadn't even read the rules recently and couldn't tell me much of anything about proper fencing. We did the swordwork as a formality, and there was no hard hitting or hesitation, but skill, even with light was just not there... sigh. Better luck next time.<br /><br />Cynan showed up, ginormous shield in hand, and we fenced. It was awesome. From fighter to fencer in three months, and he's FUN. He and Carolyne and I were one team for Jack's tavern brawl, and we ended up winning the day. Woo! Usually it was Cynan and me left standing at the end of the scenario, which was a new thing for me... still alive? How strange. Hot day though, and lots of fencing, made us all tired. I headed back to camp for a shower and a nap. Kathy joined me on the blanket in the shade, Mickel tootled on her recorder, and I think I actually got some sleep. Or at least relaxed. Which was lovely.<br /><br />Woke up a few times, not entirely myself, apparently, but conscious enough to chase down Cynan, find Brian, who had my cake pan filled with lovely things from Angus & Tigger before he headed back to Canada, and return to the blanket for more nap. Kinda nap. Laying down in the shade, talking with wonderful people, drinking a bit of Kathy's chocolate-whippedcream-wine. Delicious. Delightful. We were camped on the corner of the main road through camp, so everybody walked by, said hi, socialized for a bit, and wandered on.<br /><br />Mickel and I headed for the ball post-feast. She ended up playing my recorder and I danced and directed traffic. It was pretty near perfect. Back to a campfire prepared by Max, for stories and singing and socializing, and then I had to go... way too early again... sigh. Home by 3AM, not enough sleep, but work the next day wasn't too bad. So much fun.<br /><br />The sunshine and warm weather has made the garden explode! Now if only the pouring monsoons would ease up a bit. Between the slugs and the pounding rain, I have hardly any seedlings left. They've eaten the tops off half my sunflowers, the spinach has gone half rotten, and the rain has beaten half of my poor carrots into nothing. I'm going to have to replant, and get some slug stuff. Blech. I whacked my red coneflower this evening, and sent at least a dozen slugs flying. Ick ick ick. All my iris leaves have holes in them, but I am pleased to say that I will be keeping the iris that came with the house. They are not the expected "old fashioned" purple (not that there's anything wrong with purple, I just can't stand they "typical" purple iris that spread everywhere...), but a lovely shade of pale lavender. At least the one that bloomed is. My potatoes have also taken off like crazy! Even out of the tower, like they're supposed to! Yaaaaay! Just need to get rid of the slugs...<br /><br />Excited too; I have 6 new hoyas, mostly miniatures, coming by mail from <a href="http://www.violetbarn.com">The Violet Barn</a>, probably on Friday. They're small, they won't take up much room!! So pleased I rediscovered the site... I need to go through my houseplants again. Most of them need cleaning, some need repotting. It's supposed to rain Saturday. I'll do that when I need a break from sewing. Making a new door for the tent, BEFORE Great Northeastern War! Which I still need to do some planning and scheduling for. The class form is going up this weekend. Will work on that tomorrow.<br /><br />Till then, some photos:<br /><table>
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</table><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=237095" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:236990Weekend now, please?2012-05-25T03:20:24Z2012-05-25T03:20:24Zfun. - Some Nightsrestlesspublic0Lancelot is certainly ready.<br /><br /><img width="600" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MWXT-qxliRk/T77zaKOo99I/AAAAAAAAEwY/fiy3OgmwtKk/s759/DSC_2438.jpg" /><br /><br />This has been a freakin' WEEK OF MONDAYS. I am SO ready for the weekend, to spend some time in Vermont, having some nice low stress fencing, dancing, music, and relaxation at Panteria. With the exception of Sunday, it seems everybody I ran across or talked to this week was absolutely batshit insane, impossible to deal with, high-strung, argumentative, and just plain crazy. I had wondered if it was me, for a while, then noted that everybody else in the office and online was experiencing the same stupid stuff. I blame Sunday's eclipse (which we didn't even get to see). Bizarre astrological phenomena.<br /><br />In garden news (pictures later), my potatoes are almost all growing! There are a few chunks that have no sprouts yet, but I'm not giving up on them just yet. The first little shoots are making their way out the sides of the potato tower too! First noticed one bunch yesterday, and there were definitely more this evening when I came home from work. Sunny days and rainy nights are doing wonders for everything. I grabbed a couple new coral bells from work to replace the ones I lost over the winter, the <i>villosa</i> cultivars ('Caramel' and a lime green one I can't remember right now) did very well. 'Midnight Rose' and 'Hercules' died. Hybrids... sigh. I am trying 'Hercules' again, since the ones at work made it fine (maybe I just had a bum plant), but have replaced the other with 'Regina' We'll see how they do... There are also a couple new Echinacea that came in today that I need to resist buying... double orange-red <a href="http://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/2657/hot-papaya-coneflower.php">'Hot Papaya'</a> is tempting, though... I do have to pick up some slug repellent, or start leaving saucers of cheap beer around, since the leaves on my cutleaf coneflower and just about everything else are starting to look pretty ratty. Little gross slimy pests...<br /><br />Packing tomorrow, and hopefully heading out to spend an evening around the fire with good friends, waking up under canvas for the first time since Pennsic. It will be good.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=236990" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:236450Garden Updates2012-05-18T23:47:34Z2012-05-18T23:53:03Zaccomplishedpublic0<ul><li>Potatoes! I has sprouts! Yaaaay! Just in the garden box so far; the top ones of the tower are buried a little deeper, I think, and I've got to wait for the ones on the sides of the tower to work their way through the straw, so perhaps next week we'll see some sprouts on the sides.<br /><li>Tomato! I have again obtained a wonderful 'Pineapple' Tomato plant (last seen during the blight of '09 ('10? When was the bad late blight year?); I got one fruit. It was phenomenal.). It is planted in a large green pot, and placed next to the potato tower, in the hopes of more sun = fruits!<br /><li>Purple and green Kohlrabi seeded in the previously vacant spot in the raised bed made their appearance mid-week. YAY.<br /><li>I definitely planted round 1 of peas too deeply. Or it was just too cold. Probably too deeply. Round 2 is all up, just over a week. Half an inch, that's all they need...<br /><li>Have sprayed my rose with Neem oil. The aphids found it. Horrible little beasties.<br /><li>There is ONE bud (so far) on the mystery iris that came with the house. I moved some of them last year, hoping a bit more sun would help them out. I'm kinda hoping for something other than purple, but not really expecting anything exotic. What I hope is my 'Enchanted One' Iris also has one bud. Lemon-scented, yellow with lavender falls, it is absolutely enchanting. Also one bud on the 'Best Bet' piece I got from work when we divided the giant clump last fall. White with deep blue falls. So pretty!<br /><li>Finally planted the Canadian Ginger around the Oakleaf Hydrangea. One casualty, nothing serious, and it allowed me to finally get a good look at the neat little flowers:<br /><img width="600" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4yvG572XtLY/T7bZ-USI2-I/AAAAAAAAXRo/57s1IioPWIQ/s775/DSC_2469.jpg" /><br />So cool. It's not as glossy and showy as the European, which I have planted around the coral bells one terrace down (two of which need to be replaced... I need a new dark purple and a new green, I think. We've got 'em at work...), but it will fill in the top and hopefully out-compete the darn sorrel.<br /><li>Helped Max put in some hosta, fern, and bugbane by their new privacy fence today, mulch on Sunday after work. Looks fantastic! Looking forward to seeing it next year when it's more filled in.</li></li></li></li></li></li></li></li></ul><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=236450" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:236119Garden, Continued2012-05-13T23:20:44Z2012-05-13T23:20:44Zwhirrrr of the popcorn makeraccomplishedpublic2BEHOLD THE MIGHTY POTATO TOWER!<br /><br /><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-gbhROYLU8sE/T7A_tTRbpwI/AAAAAAAAXJk/2rhP86LGZC8/s512/DSC_2445.jpg" /><br /><br />Ok, maybe not so mighty... it's kinda cute, really. Only 18" in diameter, and roughly 4' tall, but 2 layers each of 'Yellow Finn' and 'Dark Red Norland' potatoes. I hope something comes of it... It is in the sunny spot where I really should have put the main garden. Thanks so much to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://dervishspin.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://dervishspin.livejournal.com/'><b>dervishspin</b></a></span> who found the <a href="http://urbanfarmerseward.posterous.com/potato-towers-and-living-fence-posts">nifty how-to</a>! Thanks also to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://kurlon.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://kurlon.dreamwidth.org/'><b>kurlon</b></a></span> who helped hold the silly thing upright and open whilst I attempted to pour soil mix inside and not all over him. I mostly succeeded. One thing that needs to be done is staking it so it stays upright... I don't want to have the Slightly Leaning Tower of Potatoes become the Great Potato Caterpillar. Couple weeks I should hopefully have some sprouts showing through, maybe even before.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=236119" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:235866Some Catching Up...2012-05-13T01:55:11Z2012-05-13T02:22:04Zclassical piano on MPBN TVmellowpublic0It's spring. It's been crazy. I finished a scroll and a half last week (pictures next week, after it's awarded), and am fried. Wheee! First weekend off in a while. I could have gone to Carolingia's Investiture and had a fantastic time, but staying home and puttering around in the garden was a much better plan for today.<br /><br />Car is fixed, I'm in debt... but, new timing belt, window all better, new rear brakes, everything else should be OK for a while (I hope). Finally got the bill for the repair of my broken arm. Ow ow ow all over again, even though we knew exactly what it was going to be and have the money set aside, still no fun.<br /><br />The last couple weeks have been full of fencing and friends! Fencing at Fort Knox (SO AWESOME. And we had a STAIR PIT!), got my baby goat fix and had a lovely visit and dinner with Jehan and Kyle at <a href="http://www.sunnywoodfarm-maine.com/">Sunnywood</a>, Sea Dogs game with <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://mylisant.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://mylisant.livejournal.com/'><b>mylisant</b></a></span>, Northern Region Rapier Championships and Tyger and Bucket, and finally a day to myself in the garden.<br /><br />Mother's Day tomorrow; work will probably be crazy, which is really a good thing. I only spent a half hour on the phone with the office today, not bad. Re-confirmed this week that some people have zero sense of self-preservation. WTFPANIC moment from work: I'm in the BIG loader, just finished dumping a bucketload of mulch into the back to this guy's truck, have it in reverse (bucket is still up), so the loader is beeping, and the guy WALKS UNDERNEATH THE BIG BUCKET ARM instead of waiting literally 3 seconds for me to back out of the way enough that he could have walked the exact same space, without danger of being clocked in the head with a major F=MA win on my end. Thank goodness I was paying attention and not actually moving backwards yet. Idiot.<br /><br />Played in the garden today. Put fabric and started to do stones along the drip edge of the house so any mulch or compost I put down won't get washed away. Got rid of the burning bush and all of its horrible little children so the lilac (which is actually blooming this year!) doesn't have any more close competition. Also found a stepping-stone pathway (though I'm sure the intent was for it to be better...) that I knew was by the front porch, but not the full extent. A flat shovel did nice work uncovering it. Now I know what I have to start with and can do something nice with it all. Planted 2/3 of the seed potatoes in the other half of the raised bed, I will bring some straw home from work tomorrow and build my awesome potato tower that <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://dervishspin.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://dervishspin.livejournal.com/'><b>dervishspin</b></a></span> found. Cannot wait. Decided also that the garden box should really have been built on the other side of the driveway... we'll see about moving it next year, maybe.<br /><br />Lots of photos:<br /><table><tr><td><table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105277130246371473226/0428JehanSFencingAtTheFort?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HXMPvElUtCo/T53pwJ600XE/AAAAAAAAWmM/8L3u4EzCBa0/s160-c/0428JehanSFencingAtTheFort.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105277130246371473226/0428JehanSFencingAtTheFort?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">04-28 Jehan's Fencing at the Fort</a></td></tr></table></td>
<td><table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/0428Sunnywood?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1AwBOX7lIJ0/T53z0fZYu3E/AAAAAAAAEgc/p1lXVYo4uZQ/s160-c/0428Sunnywood.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/0428Sunnywood?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">04-28 Sunnywood</a></td></tr></table></td>
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<td><table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/Garden2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-luEgtITmjJM/T4yxU1_eKFE/AAAAAAAAEuY/azmPYw1b_wM/s160-c/Garden2012.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/Garden2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">Garden 2012</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=235866" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2012-01-25:1453081:235213Peas on Patriot's Day!2012-04-17T00:12:06Z2012-04-17T00:15:51Zhappypublic0And carrots, and lettuce, and onions, and a bunch of other stuff!<br /><br />I was not completely wiped out tonight when I got home from work, and found myself idly pulling a few weeds in the garden bed by the stairs, which then turned into ripping a bunch of weeds out further up the path, which turned into getting the damn sorrel out of the garden box by the driveway, which turned into turning over the soil, grabbing my seed packets and labels, and getting half the box planted! Whee! The other half will be mostly potatoes, which hopefully are shipping this week and will arrive soon... I ordered Yellow Finn and Dark Red Norland from <a href="http://www.mainepotatolady.com">The Maine Potato Lady</a>, two pretty much fool-proof varieties, so I am led to believe.<br /><br />I also finally planted the chives and garlic chives and muscari that have been (barely) living in a box for the last two years, since I dug them out of the garden in Windham. I think they will be happier now.<br /><br /><table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/Garden2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-luEgtITmjJM/T4yxU1_eKFE/AAAAAAAAEbw/JXJnm7v3NT4/s160-c/Garden2012.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/105201965608498859419/Garden2012?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">Garden 2012</a></td></tr></table><br /><br />Seeds, from back to front, left to right:<br />'Ringmaster' and 'Flat of Italy' Onions<br />'5-Color Silverbeet' Swiss Chard (and an empty spot that I need to do something with...)<br />'Carnival' Carrots (so fun! multi-color!), 'Red Sails' Lettuce, 'Tyree' Spinach<br />'Cascadia' Sugar Snap Peas are planted by the trellis, and there are a few 'Sunspot' dwarf sunflowers and some borage thrown in around the corners for good measure.<br /><br />Also went to Coronation this past Saturday with Jean, Sorcha, and Mylisant, which was lovely. Still going through photos, there will be a gallery posted soon!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=felis_lupus&ditemid=235213" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments