Hello there gardening fans! Ok, so maybe you aren't gardening fans, but I am and so I will now force you to read an account of my garden. Ok, so I can't really force you to read it, but as it is my current update (and the first one in what, about a week, the last being about a 26 cent check?) you will probably read it.

My garden is growing and growing. I think the plants liked the Miracle Grow I sprayed on them a couple of Sundays ago as the tomatoes have doubled in size in the past week and half or two weeks (that is, the plants themselves, there is no fruit yet). I have had a time keeping up with these things, I will tell you. When first I planted them I didn't get cages for them as I planned to let them grow bigger first, thereby difering any further cost until later. After a while they grew so big they fell over and I got the cages, and some stakes for the potted ones.

Well, sometime this weekend I went out to check on my garden (I believe that it was on Friday) to find all of my tomato plants had fallen again, this time damaging one of them. See, when it fell over it couldn't fall over from the base, just from the last place it had been tied up. So it bent over instead of falling over. I hope that it will heal. It seemed to be doing fairly good today when I went out. The problem is, they fell over because they were as tall as the stakes and cages were, so there was nowhere else to tie them!


Today I went to the store looking for more wood to make stakes with, with the intent of making eight 5' stakes, two rows of three in the bed and one on either end of my row of pots, in order to tie string rows of string to for the holding up of the plants. What I found was 5' stakes made of steel coated in plastic, which is far better than wood and cheaper, too. So I got those and some twine. Also picked up a clothes line and some clothes pins, but that isn't for my garden.

So when I got home I immediatly went to work, because when I get new toys I like to play with them right away. However, it being 3:30pm in the south, I quickly stopped my work and went inside to watch TV or something, where the AC is.

Then at 5:30 I returned to my gardening, as it was cooling off by this point. I got everything tied up and have decided that next year I shall forego any individual stakes and cages and simply use this method. And I'll already have the stakes next year, I'll just need new twine!

After staking and tieing I watered as it was in dire need of such. We are in great need of rain at this point in the year. Really, anytime. Come on, I want rain. A nice two day rain or something like that. We need it to cool off things and to water the earth. Please.

Just to illustrate how odd I am and how much of a kid I still am, as I was watering the garden I also watered myself. My clothes were soaked and I was dripping. It was quite fun. It's good that no one was watching, they would have laughed.

So what else have I been up to lately? Not a whole lot. Yesterday I worked and slept. I also took the knock box home for repairs, as it was falling apart everytime we'd knock on it (A knock box is a box that has a bar going across it and is used for knocking the grinds out of the filter of an espresso machine (called a portafilter, not because it's portable but because it goes on the port). I do not know about most, but ours is a metal box with a rubber coated bolt going across the center, about 5"x7" and about 3" tall that sits inside of a wooden frame. I am not entierly sure why it sits inside the frame thought I assume it makes less of a metalic bang when you have it in the frame vs. setting it on the counter directly. Anyway, the frame fell apart, being of simple construction; four pieces of particle board tacked together with four tacks. I used wood glue and twelve tacks. I think it will last a while longer. Actually the box had fallen apart about two months ago and I fixed it with a rubber band. Said band broke this weekend sometime and we had no more, sadly.

Tonight I'm going to the Metro (it's a coffeehouse that wants to be a bar, or a bar that wants to be a coffeehouse and calls itself a coffeehouse (seriously, it's called Metro: A Coffeehouse) I'm not sure which. They serve coffee, but it's not very good and they serve far more bar type things.) to see Sibin play. They're a celtic band.

The choir at church has just started three or four pieces from Elijah, Becca and I were much excited about that. However I believe they are for after summer as we have a two month break in June and July. Sometime durring that time I'll be singing with Jonathan, the choir director (a tenor) in the morning service, that should be fun.

Also in the musical world, yesterday while I was at the shop a lady came in giving out information about advertising with the Augusta Opera and I asked her about auditions for the chorus, I'm very interested and will be calling soon. I have also marked the date in my calender for the Augusta Choral Society auditions, August 9. The next concert season looks good. Check it out at the website.

Anyway, so thats what is going on here these days. Later folks!


- posted by Nick @ 5/25/2004 07:16:00 PM | 0 comments