i forgot to take a pic today but i finished bringing composted soil to the whole front of this bed, dug it in with the trowel, not deep, just a little. Mixed it with my hands. Many things have been planted and grown in the small bed. Nothing to show for it except from last year, the flax, garlic, chocolate flower and parsley. One year there was a ton of Calendula. Another time some Woad. Different things. It's in full sun and by full sun i mean FULL SUN….direct, unrelenting SUN. Water in the morning and a couple hours later in say, July, it's dry. So the need to give water twice a day. I'd like to plant herbs in the little "rock rooms", the rocks will hold moisture i'm thinking. Maybe. It's not a good flower bed. So what will happen here is yet to be dreamed up. And DO i want things to be perennials? or not…. But it's Ready.
and i'd bought a big bag of potting soil the other day, filled those little tomato seed start pots for the window inside.
dumped the rest of the bag, i think it was 40 lbs, into this little arrangement.
but by morning, there was a really creepy ODOR from the seed pots….i cannot describe. So i took the tray out and today emptied the little pots and cleaned out the "arrangement" and dumped it all out into the middle of the road to get flattened in. Simultaneously and maybe coincidentally, i have had odd periods of dizzyness. And of course i immediately think there is some kind of toxic Mold or something in the soil and probably by tomorrow, i will be found dead by Jan the Dog Trainer whose job it is for the New Mex Medical Examiner to "pronounce" and document unattended deaths in Socorro County, so i emailed her and said if it was me, the likely cause was the potting soil…the empty bag is in the truck. So i did that.
then, this corner that in the past, the whole corner, was planted with some vegetable. Most often tomatoes, but last year i tried green beans….the poles.
but on the right hand side is a Tay path. Where she runs to peer through the fence when she hears something. No way to keep her from that.
so i filled the center of the stick circle and placed what rocks i had around the perimeter of the sticks, a couple pieces of wood. Will bring more rocks from the Way Back to finish. Will retry the green beans Inside the stick circle, train the vines UP.
So, this is what i did. And how it's all so different this time. No sense of HURRY. Just this smooth steady Doing. First time ever that there has been
Enough Time
and i thought how i would more than anything, wish this for my kids. To not need to wait until they were 70 years old. To find a way. It's so so Gentle.
this is Next.
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