What is wrong with my wee little seedlings?
See how the stem of this beet is growing? Why does this happen to my seedlings? You should know, before you answer that question, that it is growing in a spot that gets sun almost all day, the seeds were planted about a half an inch deep, and have been regularly watered. I've had this problem before. Did I not bury the seed deep enough?
They droop over. The stems aren't rotting off though. It's just that the shoulder of the plant is too high above the ground. I've been mounding soil around them to stand them back up.
My dill is doing it too. But it isn't as bad because dill doesn't grow a swollen root for me to eat which sounds really disgusting.
It bugs me. It bugs me to not know why this happens.
Isn't that the most cheerful thing you've ever seen? The first fruit to develop. There are actually a few more but at this point they all look exactly the same so I'll spare you the five hundred pictures I was tempted to take.
The eggplants aren't far behind. The nightshade family ROCKS!
My caserta squash (Mexican zucchini) is getting large. I actually have a few of these plants. While common wisdom is that you will always have way more zucchini than you can possibly eat and will become the pariah of the neighborhood with all your baskets of free squash, I have never found this to be the case.
Look who showed up late for the party.*Random thought ten minutes ago:
I wonder if I put too many plates in this cabinet, will the whole cupboard fall off the wall? And if it all came crashing off the wall, am I standing too close to it to avoid being crushed?
Random thought fifteen minutes ago:
It's been a long time since I went across the street to check on Max. I wonder what they would do if I just left him there until it's time to go to Lisa B's house for dinner? (vision of them dragging my kid across the street to dump him back at home where he belongs, with his hag of a mother who leaves him at the neighbor's house for two hours without checking to see if he's still alive.)
Random thought twenty minutes ago:
I wonder if everything in the vegetable garden is going to die before I get to eat it?
There is a blessed silence in my house right now. It will end at any moment. Right here on my blog is one of the best ways to enjoy the complete absence of all other people in my space. Complete silence, except for the constant flow of random thoughts in and out of my mind.
Here's another one happening right now:
Does anyone ever achieve silence in their own head without trying? Does any one out there go around without any thoughts at all? What would that be like? Is it peaceful or eerily empty feeling? How could that be possible? Do thoughts in other people's heads sound like a personable narration, as it does in mine, or is it less like talking to themselves and more like...like what?
Warming up to my theme:
What would it feel like to be a person with no thoughts in their head, ever, and then suddenly they get a lone solitary thought that pings into their brain...would it scare the shit out of them or be a pleasant change of pace?
(And just when you thought it couldn't get more interesting):
What if that one thought was: I sure would like to play ping pong. ? How weird would that be?
Actually, that kind of sounds like fun right now.
*That's asparagus, in case you didn't recognize it.
Labels: gardening, random thoughts