osprey94's Blog

A package from Burpee was waiting for me when I got home. Yipeeeee! I got a "SunCalc":

This is one of those products I'd usually make fun of when I see them on TV or in a catalog. I'd say something along the lines of "Lemme get this straight. You're too lazy to look out the window and see how much sun an area is getting, so you have to PAY to buy a device that will do it for you?!"

HOWEVER! In my defense! I have SO MUCH AREA to cover and I am slowly losing my mind trying to figure out which areas get light and how much at which parts of the day during which parts of the year...bleh. I'm fed up and I saw this thing and I thought - HA! Someone listened to my pleas. My lazy, consumerist pleas. Now, a device will do the work for me and I will vegetate on the couch. Just kidding about the couch part. The thing will calculate the sun for me while I build that greenhouse and plant my plants.

I also got an herb garden kit:

I loved the combination of herbs it included and the fact that it came with two different plans. I think I'm going to plant one of my three veggie beds entirely with this pack. It'll look so pretty. The only thing it's missing is cilantro, but I'll plant some somewhere else.

I also ordered asparagus, but got a little slip that basically said, sorry, you don't get any stinkin' asparagus, but didn't really explain why. They send asparagus out at the correct planting time for your area. I hope that time hasn't passed, but it probably has. Oh well, I might just try again next year, or the next time they offer it.

No more deer predation YET. I live in fear. D peed all over some of the plants in the shed bed (I told him NEAR, not ON, but he got a little carried away), but I don't know if that's working or if they're just saving their appetite for a few days from now when they're going to eat every last leaf.

We shall see!