Comments on: Garden party

By: cassie

cassie — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:39:44 +0000

earlier today i was drawing up the plans for my first garden in illustrator. i can’t decide if i am over planning or not. i am just excited to grow my own food!

love your blog and look forward to seeing how your garden grows!

By: Tartelette

Tartelette — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:28:31 +0000

You guys are my gardening idols. Seriously!!
See part of me thinks I’d compulsively drop the seeds precisely where they would sprout best and the other part of me thinks that I would just scatter them everywhere and hope for the best…I can’t believe we are still enjoying our first homegrown tomatoes and it is December 19th and 80F during the day…crazy!!
Wishing you the best holiday season and a safe trip!

By: cookiecrumb

cookiecrumb — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:39:44 +0000

OK, you’re not letting go. That’s fun for you. Just wait; it’ll get funner.

Happy travels!!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:48:48 +0000

Well, at least you’re reasonable.

Jokes…only jokes.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:06:32 +0000

Laura: I don’t think that I’m going to completely believe that it’s real until I see those sprouts.

Greg: I find that I need both of those voices inside my head to keep me on track. The Planner gives me a greater chance of success and the Improviser reminds me that the goal isn’t perfection, it’s to grow something. And eat it.

Morgan: I’m not sure how to respond to that without charging you $150/hour.

Cookie: It’s kind of weird, but I’m actually enjoying the planning. It’s like getting to play in the garden when there’s actually nothing to do there.

By: cookiecrumb

cookiecrumb — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:01:01 +0000

See, Cam, that’s the same sort of over-pre-obsessing that prevented me from planting with abandon for so long.
Finally, ChileBrown said, “Dig a hole and dump some bullshit into it.” I opted for chickenshit, but all the same… it worked!
Relax and enjoy the harvest. They didn’t have rulers when agriculture was invented.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:40:33 +0000

See, Stacey and I are mostly like that too, except I’ll be the obsessive dork that draws out about fifteen different diagrams showing what will be planted where. But then, when it actually comes to planting everything, I’ll be the one who is eye-balling it while Stacey’s following ME around with a tape measure. Before long we’re into a “You don’t trust my judgement talk”. Then comes the bitter silence…

Wow, that got uncomfortable really quickly. [insert awkward laugh]

By: Greg Turner

Greg Turner — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:21:24 +0000

My wife and I keep toying with the idea of putting in a garden. She’s much more a planner than I, and I’m hoping this post will enable us to find a little compromise between my own, “Ah, just put them anywhere. If they grow, they grow!” and her “The directions say each row should 2.5 inches apart and the seeds planted no more than 5/16 of an inch.”

I can’t wait to read about your results.

By: Friends don’t let friends use tape measures – The Inadvertent Gardener

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:10:19 +0000

[...] To read the other side of the story, please head over to Cam’s wonderful rendition. [...]

By: Genie

Genie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:04:50 +0000

Laura, I know you’re right about the planning and the tape measure, and I think you’re even right about the solid plan leading to better improvising! Still, the little planting chart made me chuckle, less because of its validity as a method and more because I am so very, very bad at planning any kind of garden other than in the broadest and vaguest of terms.

It was an incredibly fun day! And every now and then I was actually able to impart some of the small pieces of gardening knowledge floating around in my brain. AND I got to eat the dilly beans, which were uh-may-zing. So hooray for planning!