| Dec. 30th, 2009 @ 07:32 pm My Mom Is Almost Always Right |
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Two days ago (that would be Monday) I made old-fashioned baked beans (minus the salt pork; mine were vegetarian) and butternut squash ravioli. I used a mixture of black and white beans that I grew this summer, and it was very satisfying. Admittedly my bean harvest wasn't even large enough to fill a whole Mason jar, but it still made me happy. This brings me to the subject of my post today: My Mom Is Almost Always Right. My mom is definitely right when she says I should build a bean teepee next year and grow climbing (or "pole") beans. I don't have enough full-sun space here to grow enough bush beans, and by climbing a pole or teepee or something, the beans will be able to climb up out of the shade and get more sun. Same goes for squashes and other viney things.
For the past few years, my mom kept telling me that if I took the Organic Master Gardener course, she'd pay for it. I kept hemming and hawing and not thinking I really needed to do it. Then this year I decided she was right, and took the course, and she paid for it, and I loved it. She was definitely right about that one. She's right so much of the time that when I disagree with her I get really upset about it. I can't think of any good examples of that right now, but it happens. Hmmm. Anyhow, the point of this is that I should grow pole beans. Yes.
Things I have learned in 2009:
-don't grow squash in the shade - they'll get mildew and die
-slow-cooking takes a long time
-leave the leaves! They feed the worms (among other things)
-I should be growing pole beans
-potatoes only grow upwards: that is, you will get potatoes from the deepest one you plant and upwards of that, but they won't go down any further. This is why it's good to "hill" them up or do some sheet mulching (composting in place) over top of them
-trees are perfect, know exactly what shape they need to be, and will grow into that shape. Things get messy when people put the wrong tree in the wrong place and then decide it needs to be a different shape or size.
-I really REALLY like cooking and baking. If I were rich, I'd be in cooking school and music school right now.
-yoga is something I need to do, a lot
-apparently I can be "outspoken" - I didn't think this was the case, but someone complimented me on it (which will only encourage me, so watch out). I used to think of myself as a moderate, middle-of-the-road, fence-sitting kind of person. I guess that changed. Dammit, I'm a damn hippie radical and proud of it!
Today my boss asked me, "Do you think of yourself as sort of an earthy person?"
I said, "What?!"
He said, "You know, kind of earthy, hippie chic?"
I said, "Yep. Why?"
Turns out someone gave his wife a purse for Christmas that she'll never use and he wondered if I wanted it. He described it as being red and black and "like something the Incas would make?" I said, maybe, but I'd have to see it first. What a guy. |
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