C-3PO: “I would much rather have gone with Master Luke than stay here with you. I don’t know what all this trouble is about, but I’m sure it must be your fault.”
[R2 beeps an angry response]
C-3PO: “You watch your language!”
Star Wars IV: A New Hope
I love planting veggies from seed. But OMG! Why do they have to go and get so needy right away? I have about 25 pea plants outside, maybe more. I don’t know; I got a little slap happy putting them into the ground. Suddenly they’re all: “water me” and “stake me” and “take care of me”. I’m about ready to punch Gregor Mendel right in the face. You’d think that along with all that time doing hybridization experiments, he could have made a few that weren’t so helpless.
Just for us city folks…exactly how many peas does 25 pea plants produce? Cause I’m envisioning a front-loader pulling up to your yard just to haul away the surplus!
Way, way, way too many. Thankfully, we all, and Padawan Learner especially, eats them like candy once they start popping up. I planted a sweet variety that you can eat raw, straight off the vines. It’s not unusual to see a couple of the neighbor kids sitting around chatting and snacking on pea pods in June. Strange, but true.
OMG, you sound like Mom #2, except she LOVES it. She spends more time outside with her precious veggies than she does with the people she’s growing them for. We don’t like peas over here, but there are enough green beans to zig zag the globe ten times – and frankly, that’s still not enough.
All of my seed grown seedlings got eaten by some stalk borer caterpillar thing. But not the normal, eat the stalk (and easier to kill kind), no the super duper climb up the plant eat the leaves and impossible to kill ant stalk borer kind. I’ve completely messed up the name, so don’t google it (I mean, in addition to the liberties I’ve taken with it). So, I went to the nursery and found the plants with the thickest stems (oh yes, it was stems, not stalks, replace the name with stem) and laughed evilly while I planted them. Apparently they can’t climb thick stems.
Sounds like we are all spending time in the garden. Mine is just starting to sprout, I’m just hoping I can keep the 4 legged creatures at bay long enough to see some results.
That is too funny! And so true. My seeds are still in the packages on the counter. I’m hopeless.
We don’t do seeds too well around here. When I plant seeds, that business of evenly spacing is just too hard. Instead, I throw them artfully and allow for survival of the fittest. Then, the next season, I just hope for some self-seeding action which happens when you ignore your plants in the first place. As you can imagine, any produce is a pleasant surprise.
I loathe gardening. All that dirt. worms. bleah.
When I was a kid, my mom used to grow peas at our dacha. I remember picking lots of pea pods into the hem of my shirt and going off to eat them somewhere with my friends. There were worms in some of them, that was yucky. We threw them on the ground and screeched like banshees))
I remember helping our neighbor pick veggies, snapping beans and shelling peas, and most of all playing house in the cool, green corn patch. Heaven.
I knew there were reasons why I stopped gardening.
By the middle of the gardening season, I am always ready for it to be done. LOL I sure love the veggies, but it is a lot of work, isn’t it?