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another 5 hour day…but this time completely…no  Child Gardening.   just steady.   There's not much to show for it,  ie: pics,  nothing you don't see in your own gardens.   plants are plants.    But,  either in the ground or in pots:  tomatoes   squashes,straight and crook neck     zucchini   egg plant .   Tomatoe cages tied in place.    cucumber seedlings planted  (in case my seeds fail.    Looking as i type this…doesn't seem like much…   

and then,  am keeping notes this time (?) ,  other years i've begun then don't ,   this time….we'll see.   Even small growing details.

Does anyone know things about Plantain?    All along i have been sure that i know this plant,  that it's growing randomly,  the narrow leaf….one time   a broad leaf,  but not in last 2 years… i'm pretty sure there's still broad leaf down in the rooster swamp…  but i looked it up today and now i'm not sure this is it.   Pics tomorrow.  Does anyone make their own medicinals?  ie salves?   I have always thought you have to be a Magic Person for that…but?,  ?,  maybe things like i need,    are  forgiving?????    i could  LEARN?

that little vase,   to show Alyssia….it's Miner's Lettuce.  Why Goats do not eat it is our Mystery,   but i'd been watching a small

cluster as i sit in the Resting Chair by Nogal's forest.   Watching…not really,  but just it's There and i am resting and breathing and just looking at nothing on purpose…i watch the tiny ants there,  but i noticed recently that it creates these very beauty Full litte kind of seed pouches,  heart shaped,  toward the end of it's seasonal Time    and this is an example of the surprise that all of a sudden,   at this point in its lifetime/seasonal time  the Goats DO eat it!   ! 

and the Robins continue.   almost ever present,  just outside the door…?     Robinda and her manRobin.   

I might leave the door open tonight.   57 degrees.

 

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6 responses to “really Trying”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) I had never heard of Miner’s Lettuce, what a terrific plant that’s good food, easy to grow & shade tolerant, here’s a link;
    https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/how-to/miners-lettuce/9430546

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  2. Deb G Avatar

    I am trying to take more notes this year, pay more attention to the details too. Hoping I have already document “last frost.”

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    so much to respond to – first I love the name “Robinda”
    I’ve never made salves, but I do love to grow herbs. It’s definitely something one could learn.
    We grow miner’s lettuce although know it as Claytonia. It’s one of the few plants to stay green and alive in the hoophouse over the cold Maine winters. It self-seeds, in fact I couldn’t get rid of it now if I wanted to. Quite a miraculous plant.
    My indoor tomato seedlings are up! They really activate a nurturing instinct, I want to take care of them like babies.
    I keep very extensive notes – my work background in “documentation” – it’s now a joke between Sam & I. But my notes are really helpful! Especially to look back and see what I was doing last year at this time.

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    Grace~ To make some notes, to learn and be within the season, all such a good place to be.
    I feel like I have so little to offer these days. More sitting and looking for me, more than other anything else. But, I can offer up Peggy, our old friend. She used to make all sorts of salves etc. Perhaps a search on her blog would offer up something?
    https://womanwithwingsblog.blogspot.com/
    I don’t know, but that’s all I’ve got at the moment.
    I do hope you share some of the pages in your garden journal. I’ll live vicariously 🙂

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  5. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Busy morning here, busy day with appts. Read this post early but we had to leave early and got back about an hour ago. Have never made salves or medicines from plants or herbs but just now, put in mail to you, some torn out pages from an old book that I have had since 1987, Rodale Press, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs. Wanted to photocopy the pages but my copier had a hard time, decided to cut the pages, but binding tight so I ripped, and trimmed, a few raggedy pages but it is filled with herb healing info for you. Maybe it will be of some use…

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