07 Feb Sat 2009
The Zen of Gardening
It’s early February and I can’t wait to get out to the greenhouses! Today is damp and foggy and cold.I am eyeing the packets of herbs and flower seeds on the kitchen counter anxiously.
Our greenhouses are an oasis to me.Once it’s light my dog Willy and I will head out into the gardens and check out the garlic and onions and spinach and turnips, see if the peas in winter experiment is working yet, then it’s off to the cold frames.It always amazes me when I open the doors and see the beautiful green starts all lined up and the smell of warm moist soil hits me like a ton of bricks, it’s like opening up a present!I’ll spend the morning filling flats with dirt, spreading seed, watering and labeling the plants!Transplanting what has already taken off into larger containers.Listening to the quacking ducks and the geese that visit the pond across the way.Willy spends the morning charging the fence trying to scare the cows next door and they just stare back at him, like “what are you, nuts?” There is a wonderful rhythm to it all!Unbridled joy!Jeff & Toni
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