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cucumber bed

 

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tomatillo bed.  will hopefully reseed itself.

 

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the diamond bed….this year Woad.  and Patricia's marigolds i am sure will self seed.

 

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and the long bed…chard, eggplant, yellow hots,  bell peppers.  this time the bed divided by a center walk way,  the plants put in arches…or semicircles around either side…Keyhole design..Permaculture.  

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tomato inbetween the Golden Currant and Coral Berry.  the place that grew the best and fierce est plant last year.

 

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tomatoes

 

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WIND yesterday and on into the night knocked the trellis apart.  but that's ok.  because i accidentally got bush green beans.  so this is where they will go.  Zarina said it was a good mistake.  She LOVES bush green beans best…and is from a long long line of West Virginia Gardners.  ok.

 

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tools.  i am loving TOOLS.  all kinds.  

 

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i dragged this here a year ago last December.  Didn't use it last year.  but it  might be perfect for salad greens.  so with those tools i managed to remove the center board and put it on the outside front.  took a while.  i wanted to give up.  i didn't.  it's done.  it might work.  can cover it when it might need shade.  ok, this too, Done.

 

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the little girl's, now Big girls Play Kitchen.  raked.  

 

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the beautiful "serving plates"…they are brass,  but look at the beauty FULL corosion on the top one

 

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old woman Apricot held her blooms through the onslaught of Night Wind.

so…not much to see here.  but i worked steady all day to reach this point.  many wheelbarrows.  and it's now READY.   just to give some water now and then till the end of March or early April, depending.  Last year my heart wasn't in it.  The year before, i knew the Goats were coming and i was at a loss for what to do.  so…it's been a while.  but this time,  it's READY.  how it goes from here, we'll see.  but the other use of that Tool of a Single Day is the concept of Now.  i am very prone to Later.   I'll do it Later.  tomorrow.  in the morning.  Later.    But when that momentum of the One Singular Day takes hold,  then it begins to make sense to do things Now.  Later is a different day and that's not what's going on.  Today.  Now.  So i wanted to stop.  a bunch of times.  but i didn't.  i slowed down and just kept going.  and it's Finished.  it's Ready.  and now, tomorrow is Free.

and all the while i thought about cloth.  i kept  thinking about that one but couldn't exactly remember so when i was finished, went looking for it in Picasa.  

 

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13 responses to “having gained a little equilibrium, … maybe.”

  1. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Very satisfying, getting a job finished. Love your cucumber trellis. What is your soil like Grace. Ours is shale and clay, very hard to dig, have to add heaps of compost etc. We are attempting to start a new vegie patch. We have to erect fences, to TRY and keep all the animals out. Our free range chickens like to wreak havoc in the garden beds. We love our chickens like you do your goats. May I say, I am besotted with Your cloth at the end of your post. Do you still have her?
    PS I’m still trying to become organised!! Love to you and congrats on starting and finishing your 365 day post. Marg ox

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  2. julie Avatar
    julie

    this single observation of yours puts into words something I dearly needed to see: “when that momentum of the One Singular Day takes hold, then it begins to make sense to do things Now. Later is a different day and that’s not what’s going on. Today.”
    PS I turned myself on to bush beans by accident last year and now I am in love with them. Two full plantings in last year. That was long ago and far away, in the Time Before Snow and Ice.

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar

    here, for about the first 18 inches is SAND. then, there is Clay. but in the clay there seems to be cracks. Maybe
    because this is a continual shifting bed rock? just a little, but continually shifting????
    it has been SO long that i have worked this place. little by little it has changed and in the last few years, more so.
    Now, with the Goats manure and the scrap from their feed,
    it will SURGE ahead. i can’t at all imagine how. this
    acre has NEVER experienced manure. so it’s going to be really something to see. Even when i don’t compost it, they shit and then it dries and gets pulverized into the Earth by their hooves. a certain kind of Miracle, really.
    and Chickens. yes. oh, Chickens. they DO love new green things in a garden. i had those two Guinea Hens. same.
    Do i WANT chickens??????????????????????????????????
    that cloth went away a long time ago. i am looking at it
    now.
    and organized…that’s so particular to each and every one of us, what it means.
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    LOVE

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar

    i can imagine how it might feel…so far back….so impossible, really, that stuff Grew in Warmth.
    but she was adamant about Bush Beans. so ok. ok. it’s what i have anyway now. by accident. i am ready to love them.
    Later has tethered me. long. tight. and it never worked for me.
    Now works for me. like today. just go. i didn’t want to.
    kept thinking tomorrow. but went anyway. and the sense of
    FREE tonight is very very very good.

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  5. beth Avatar

    Oh that cloth. I love it. Big big love it. And I’m captured by the diamond bed and the black and gold stripes. Wondering how you did that. Then I see sun and fence are doing it…
    And am drinking in the apricot blossoms. Trying to smell that. It is snowing out my window tonight. 4 inches predicted. Sigh.

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  6. judykeathley@cox.net Avatar
    judykeathley@cox.net

    that sense of free is like nothing else.
    later can so be tethering indeed.
    blessings
    all seems ready

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  7. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    The land and it’s uses, the way it formed…over years…organically according to all the for, and unfor-seens. With gardening, like cloth, like relationships, like any practice really–time, taking the time, letting the time be right. and staying tuned to that is the whole thing of it! I remember it well. What a deep pleasure to see it here. What a pleasant surprise.
    Hey, that cloth is just the S[pringiest thing! YAY :->

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  8. patricia Avatar

    had noticed the car had WV plates. wondering what part of WV? and yes, people there swear by “half runners.” i really have never understood what the big deal was but don’t say that to a WV beaner. trying KY Wonder Pole beans this year–just to take advantage of vertical space. plus i love the way pole beans look.

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  9. grace Avatar

    i want all that snow to stop….for All of You that are
    inundated. i want it to just quit. But this is what we
    have, yes? all our own wants don’t change it.
    but i see your Cloth work on your blog……….
    it Just Goes….

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  10. grace Avatar

    yup. Ready.
    What will come?…we’ll find out…

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  11. grace Avatar

    the Un Seens. or…Un formed. the Energies.

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  12. grace Avatar

    yes. that’s Zarina’s car. i didn’t ask her Where in WV…
    but i thought to, because of you, but then, didn’t remember to.
    i love the way pole beans climb too. i will miss that.
    but…
    she made a salad. did i already say this?, maybe, but it’s
    worth repeating even if i did. Since they are ON THE ROAD
    they don’t have refrigeration. so when they get a bag of
    greens, they just EAT it. Eat All of it. before it wilts.
    and since they don’t have a refrigerater, her salad was
    baby Kale and olives and pickled green beans. PICKLED.
    it was such a surprise and SO SO GOOD. i want to pickle
    green beans this year. i want LOTS of them. LOTS. Jars
    of them. Many.
    i’ll hang little scraps of cloth on the trellis overhead to
    cheer the bush beans on. She hasn’t grown beans in the desert…so…we’ll see….
    i looked at your Dirt Deva’s again today. Wish they lived here. that pile of sticks is still pretty much a pile.

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  13. Minka Avatar

    I’ve been away. Your spring has arrived! I’m envious. We have made it through February but the snow is piled high by a Caterpllar…more than a story high.

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