Goose's Garden

9 May '08 5:51 pm

Hi, Goose!

It's good to hear from you again! Sorry to hear about the broken foot, but I'm glad to hear that it's healing well. And at least with the rain that you're getting, I guess you aren't wanting to be out in the garden.

As for me, I've been out in my garden a lot over the last few days as we've finally been getting some decent weather here. I spent a couple of hours weeding on hands and knees today as well as planting up my "Pelargonium Post" with "Vancouver Centennial" geraniums again. I found that I was short one, so I'll have to get over to the garden centre tomorrow to buy another plant.

I traded a huge piece of my black bamboo for a couple of bags of mushroom compost today, so I'll be able to get the tomato plants out in compost in the cold frame tomorrow. That way they will be protected from the very cool nights that we're still getting. Also, I'll be away for the long weekend a week from now (back up to the Interior for the Planting Festival) and while I have someone checking in on the garden, the tomatoes need a bit of extra care! This year I'm growing Black Krim purple tomatoes and Padova tomatoes, which are rather like Romas on steroids!

I've also been painting walls in preparation for selling the place to move to the Interior. When I finally get a place there, I think I'd like to try growing millet and soybeans, but I don't know much about the cultivation of either one. If anyone has a favourite variety of soybeans, please let me know so I have a starting point for my search for information about them!

Well, that's it from me for today! Do take care of that foot so it heals quickly! When do you expect to get the cast off??

Cheers!

gordonf

9 May '08 6:29 pm

Hello Goose. I hope you'll be well again very soon.

10 May '08 3:58 am

(Thats as opposed to Moose Goose.) And if that doesn't make sense to some readers, don't worry. Even when I've explained it won't!

I can't believe its over a year since I saw your thread... I never saw the last potager pics. I was still on walks for elderly parents. Then you go breaking your foot. OOPS: wake-up call! (I was worried about three of the four old people in my life in January. It was a fifth who died... but strangely, as I worried, I thought: one well aimed car/ burglar's bullet and I pre-decease them anyway. What a business life is! Hope you are mending fast. What happened? Or is there another thread I have missed?

Have you made any final-final decisions on the centre-piece? (I'm a great believer in final decisions which predate the final-final - and inevitably that one is simpler than the mere-smere final versions!)

Good luck as you hop along!

10 May '08 10:06 am

Footloose and Fancyfree? Jacks Thread - Summer on Sequoia
1 Feb '08 8:54 am

As to the foot, my friends & family have had a good laugh over it as it was a Weta that caused it. I was cleaning windows outside,using the kitchen step stool. Holding on with one arm and cleaning with the other, when a Weta latched itself onto my holding on arm.
I hate these creatures and reacted accordingly.Letting go,loosing my balance of course and you know the result.Not as exciting as jumping out of a moving plane, but funny anyway.
Pic of Weta attached just in case you have no idea what I'm on about.

NZ Weta.jpg

10/5/08 Thanks for all your kind thoughts. Have been out of the cast for some weeks now but have had complications - all the muscles and ligaments ceased up but I'm making progress with the help of physio. Its been going on so long now that I am fed up and itching to get back to my garden properly.
The final decision for the centrepiece on the potager is a Gazebo yet to be chosen. We have bought in two loads of shell
for the footpaths, just need some time and good weather to get that job done.
Sorry can't help with the soybeans Gordon but will look out for info for you. Good luck with the tomatoes.
Jack your autumn photos are amazing.Seeing them makes me wish I had had the forethought to plant more - must do.
Great to hear from you all again

10 May '08 4:56 pm

The moment I read of falling off a ladder it all came back to me... and the whole conversation about Wetas/Parktown Prawns/ Ordinary Crickets...

I can be scarily forgetful. I like to think that I am just very right-brained, but sometimes I wonder... and my mom was not too helpful last year when, after a similar lapse, she said to me in a tone of some concern "You know, one day my boy you will get Alzheimers and no-one will notice!"

Well yes - that also relates to why I find it much easier to cope with her muddled ageing than with my excessively left-brained father's ageing, where there is little back-up to the 'sensible thing to do' approach...

10 May '08 5:33 pm

Jack, you'd like to meet a weta. They're quite odd insects, apart from being occasionally responsible for accidents to good gardeners. Sometimes a brand new type gets discovered in a cave or a forest somewhere, and it's pretty exciting.

Goose, do you reckon you could upload your weta picture again? It isn't showing on my page, and I don't want Jack to get even more confused than he could already be.

Do you know - 'silly' little breaks of arms, or wrists, or feet can be devilishly difficult to get right, particularly for poeple who are older than teenagers. Break your bones before you hit 21, that's the best idea! But please do what your physio tells you - but I'm sure you are! Cheers, M

Goose's Garden

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