(What? You've never heard of the Birthday Frog? The Birthday Frog is like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, but he brings birthday presents. Get with it.)
I would like, please, for my birthday this year... ... ...
Twenty-five three-year asparagus crowns, variety Jersey Knight
Twenty-five strawberry plants, variety Eversweet Everbearing (heat- and drought-tolerant!)
Two fifty-foot rolls of 48" chicken wire and five-foot fenceposts to keep Max out of the garden
Wire ties for the above
Gift cards to Gurney's and Burpee
A broadfork (Gempler's has a good one)
Three four-cubic foot bags of vermiculite
The use of a cruddy pickup truck so I can haul some compost from the dump
A twenty-five-foot roll of two-foot-wide professional grade weedblocking cloth
A gift certificate to Home Despot so I can build some trellises (trelli? Trellae?) for cucumbers and beans and squashes and so on
A new set of biceps.
Thank you very kindly,
Jo, who has been drinking the Gardening Kool-Aid
8 comments:
You forgot to ask for one sexy landscaper to do all the work while you gaze upon his biceps and peeks adoringly......
I love this. Nobody plants a garden if they think they're gonna die anytime soon. :o))))) Very, very glad your story's having this happy next chapter.
Now I want a garden as well. And a sexy landscaper.
I have been wanting to grow a garden for a few years now but every time I get pumped up to do it I get lost on how to start.
How did you get started?
Go for it all, and enjoy it for me. I tend to kill plants, no matter how drought and heat resistant.
Yum. Can I come help you eat asparagus and strawberries??
I live in an apartment. I'll have to settle for maybe one of those upside down hanging tomato plant things that are sold by the same company as the Sham-Wow and Chia Pet. But a girl can live vicariously through someone else's garden, right???
Do you have squirrels? 'Cause if you do you can forget about the strawberries. Not trying to be a naysayer, but one of my partners who is an avid gardener gave up on strawberries for that reason.
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