The Garden Project: It’s Back
Alternatively titled “The Garden Project: I am a lazy smack.”
I am sure you have all been dying to know if Steven and I will give the garden another go this year (see last year’s garden posts here). Well, unfortunately, Steven remembers that we gardened and wants to do it again, despite me remembering what a pain in the a$$ it was Hells yes we are! This year, we are going to be smart about it though. Starting with having my dad till it for us:
Muah ha ha. Actually, I heard Steven tilled at least half of the garden, and then my dad finished it. Where was I? Pretending to exercise At the Petathlon with my mom and sister of course!
Okay, so seriously, the plan this year is a bit different. Last year was our first go and we planted a lot of different things. Some were successful, some weren’t. This year, we are going to plant the things we really liked, and one experimental crop. The cucumbers grew like rapid fire, and we liked them, so they are getting planted again. The green beans were a huge disappointment (so few grew) but dammit! I will not give up! We are planting a sh*t ton more and I hope I have more green beans than I know what to do with. Because I love me some fresh green beans. Tomatoes are an obvious – homegrown ones taste approximately 345893128 times better than the ones in the store, so they are getting planted (well, bought in plant form then planted). And the experimental crop will be sugar snap peas (is that right Steven?).
Doing the garden was so rewarding last year, but damn, I feel so so so so lazy right now. Like, really lazy. I don’t want to do anything. I am barely exercising. I am tired, and all I think about is sleep. All day long. Even when I get enough sleep on the weekends, I take naps (ahh). I sleep on the train to work; I sleep on the train ride home. Sleep sleep sleep is all that’s on my mind.
Time to SNAP out of that! Let’s get these little seeds planted* and see what happens this year!
Who else is planting crops this year?
What are you too lazy to do right now?
Here is my list:
- Work in the garden
- Clean our house
- Care about my diet
- Figure out that dental bill thing from a few months ago…
- Work on the model airplane with Steven
- Be any sort of interesting wife at all
- Put up with other people’s sh*t
- Finish a book within a month
- Write posts for my blog
- Go shopping for groceries
Apparently, I am not too lazy to:
- Write long emails to my friends
- Skype with friends Gina and Steve (they’re in NYC)
- Sign up for races I shouldn’t be running
- Buy a Soy Chai Latte at Starbucks
- Get an EKG
- Watch lots of movies
- Nag Steven about all sorts of things (travel to KC and NYC, taking Data to the vet, do this, do that, blah blah blah)
- Buy stuff on amazon.com
Items that are questionable (sometimes lazy, sometimes not):
- Strength training
- Working on the running club’s 5K website
- Reading blogs
- Exercising in general
- Running
*Maybe Friday or Monday?
Themocracy
Dang girl is all that your land?
Ha ha! No. I should have clarified – it’s a community garden. We live in a townhome and only own the land our home sits on.
Somehow, I always make time for the unproductive things, haha! Good luck with your garden. Agreen thumb is something that I have NOT been blessed with, despite coming from a long line of farmes…
I love your lists. I feel like there is a lot that I am too lazy to do right now. haha
I’m so jealous of all your gardening space! Sugar snaps are the bomb and grow so well for me. Do you have towers so the green beans can climb? Climbing is key.
Crops for me this year are limited to tomatoes, bell peppers, and some herbs. Basil, Rosemary, chives. Wish I could do more!
We are doing bushes again. I am not sure if towers would work – do they need something to lean on?
I can’t wait to hear more about the garden this year and how your experience might change from last year!
And, I can’t seem to get anything done for the life of me (my list is a lot like yours, right down to the soy chai latte). In advance of vacation I finally feel like it’s crunch time and scheduled a ton of stuff for this week (eye doc, other doc, etc) so maybe that’ll make me feel more accomplished when it gets to be time for vacation? I hope.
We just bought all of our garden crops today – hopefully they will get in the ground tomorrow or Friday. We went all out and I am assuming I will run out of room. Tomatoes, squash, eggplant, peppers, beets, watermelon, sweet corn, green beans…OMG – what did I just get myself into??
I hear ya on those lists. Somehow I am too busy to cook dinner or open the mail, but I have plenty of time to watch Season 1 of GLEE on Nextflix.
But I must remind you that getting an EKG is IMPORTANT. And geting Steven to take Data to the vet is IMPORTANT. And in my world, soy chai latte is VERY IMPORTANT.
I wonder why you are tireder than usual. Do you think it is due to stress? Or do you think you’re sleeping poorly at night?
LOL. Thank you for reassuring I have been doing the important things! 🙂
I am sleeping poorly, probably because of stress and diet. And just too much going on. I need a nice long, relaxing vacation!!! 🙂
I planted my stuff the other day with the kids. Two of my kids had a field trip at school and got an eggplant and jalapeno plant, so we planted that and also tomatoes, zucchini, and some other things that I can not think of right now. I do not have high expectations of any of it because we have done this the past 2 years and haven’t gotten much but I hope this year since I should be healthier I will be able to take better care of it.
I can’t wait to hear about yours! I love that you guys do this!
I’m still thinking about planting a tomato plant on my deck. The neighbor has one.. I should ask him if he’s grown things out there in the past. I would LOVE fresh tomatoes! My soon-to-be FIL and his girlfriend gave me a pot with fresh herbs in it. I had fresh basil on my sandwich last night. Yum. Now I just need to buy a plant stand so that Delilah doesn’t eat all my herbs!
Good luck with your garden. I hope you find the motivation for it this year!
We planted tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, spinach, acorn squash, pumpkins, green beans, beets and zucchini. I’m hopeful that we have better luck this year than we did last, but the weather’s not been what I would call prime.
I am being lazy/disinterested in:
returning to my regular yoga practice (too busy dancing!)
scrubbing the bathroom grout
buying airline tickets for August travel
cooking
cleaning off my work desk
writing blog posts
I like the too busy dancing part! (And the grout part – I was just thinking that about our shower… only it just general nastiness, not grout)
I am totally looking forward to Monday when I hope to actually have time to be lazy!! I probably could be filling those small swaths of time with something (dealing with the laundry that’s been in the dryer for a week) but I like sitting on the couch!
I think you deserve a day on the couch. Or two!
YAY! I so want to plant some planters with tomatoes or something but I don’t know if I will have the time to tend a garden!
Try a different kind of beans this year. If you did bush beans, try pole beans or vice versa. Plus, different kinds are better for full sun, which it looks like your garden gets.