Category Archives: Garden: A Love Story

The journal of my gardening exploits.

I love Lettuce From the Garden So Much…

Posted on April 28, 2011 by literarylee

…I would risk getting struck by lightning just to have some. Well…not quite but this evening when I returned home from work we were going to walk to Jones for lettuce for a salad to eat with grilled steak, but … Continue reading →

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Garden Naming Post Script (The Lorelei)

Posted on April 24, 2011 by literarylee

April 2011 In September, 2009, after a season of gardening in Smith and Jones, we moved to a new apartment, a ground-level one bedroom affair with a door directly leading outside.  The apartment managers said I could plant anything I … Continue reading →

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I Declare the Garden Produce Eating Season Officially Underway

Posted on April 23, 2011 by literarylee

April 22, 2011 We’ve been eating red leaf lettuce and spinach I planted in the Lorelei for several weeks now, yet I didn’t feel like we were really eating produce from the garden.  Is that odd?  I think I was … Continue reading →

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My Gardens’ Names

Posted on April 21, 2011 by literarylee

Naming the Gardens,  March 2010 It struck me, the day I went to the gardens for the first time this season, that they need names.  Last year we called them The Big Garden and The Little Garden.  That’s sort of … Continue reading →

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Dear Mom and Dad

Posted on April 17, 2011 by literarylee

Second week of April, 2011 Dear Mom and Dad, Sorry for not writing sooner.  So much to see and do, with things changing every day.  Let me tell you a little about my life since that day you left me … Continue reading →

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That Tangy, Earthy, Greenish Fragrance

Posted on April 13, 2011 by literarylee

Got back from running errands Saturday morning to find the lawn people cutting the yard at our apartment complex.  Grass and me go back a long, long way; we’ve been associates for many years.  I played on neatly manicured lawns for what … Continue reading →

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First (Soil) Amendment Day

Posted on April 11, 2011 by literarylee

Yesterday was First (soil) Amendment Day (of the season).  I claimed my right (and accepted my responsibility) to enrich the soil in my gardens.  I like doing that work because it’s physical, good old-fashioned labor that invigorates.  I also like … Continue reading →

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One way or another

Posted on April 6, 2011 by literarylee

Over the last few weeks I’ve been planting warm weather plant seeds.  I was watering the flats one evening and noticed a little green shoot peeking up at me from a place I wouldn’t have expected it.  While planting the … Continue reading →

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Nature’s First Green is Red

Posted on April 5, 2011 by literarylee

I am struck by how many first leaves are some shade of red or maroon.  I would have thought it an obvious thing that new leaves are green.  Many, such as weeping willow, are.  A lot of others, at least … Continue reading →

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First Salad

Posted on April 4, 2011 by literarylee

Yesterday evening we ate the first salad from the garden.  It’s hard to imagine greens (and reds) being sweet until, on an early spring day around the first of April, you harvest lettuce and spinach and endive, wash, toss into … Continue reading →

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