So it's summer here. This means: #gardening, #renovating, #wine...
What does it mean for you?
@ink_slinger Garden! What are you gardening?
We have, um. A lot of nightshades.
@aldersprig This year we've got a bunch of varieties of garlic, some pumpkins, pole beans...tomatoes, I think...various herbs. Probably other things I'm forgetting.
We've also got some strawberry plants, but I don't think they're going to produce any fruit this year. They barely survived the winter (several didn't, in fact), so they're putting all their energy into just maintaining themselves.
@aldersprig We also planted an elderberry bush in the yard...it's not part of the garden, per se, but it'll eventually provide more food.
We've also got a few decorative plants and flowers, mostly in the front garden that's too shaded to grow food-bearing plants.
@aldersprig To be honest, I mostly just help with the labour. Gardening is my wife's zen place, so once things are set up for the season, she mostly takes over.
@ink_slinger nice. I do most of the planting, but husband and I do the buying and the planning together.
@ink_slinger Wow nice. Our strawberries havenβt given us any fruit yet but fingers crossed.
@aldersprig We got a little bit last year, but it was the first year and the advice we got was to pinch off the flowers for the first year so the plants can give all their resources to establishing their roots and stems, so the few berries we got (which were delicious) were the ones we missed when they were flowers.
@aldersprig @ink_slinger Strawberries are fickle. Last year I coached some wild strawberry runners across a bank for months, giving them loads of TLC, and got maybe 2 palatable strawberries. I threatened them this spring with uprooting if I got no result; this year, they're producing loads of tasty berries for the last month. :)
@cathal @ink_slinger Our raspberry barbed-wire gives us very tasty berries - IF we can get to them before the birds.
@cathal @aldersprig Yeah, for sure. Apparently this year was a rough one for strawberries in our region, too. Most people report that if the plants were in a planter box rather than in the ground, they died over the winter due to unusual weather patterns. So I guess, in that sense, we're lucky some of our plants even survived (they're in a planter, and not all of them made it).
@aldersprig Being happy that my cellar flat is relatively cool.
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Fringe festivals/acting/flowers/warm evenings in the garden
@crowdyke Sounds fun! Acting in what?
@aldersprig
How did I miss responding to you. Oversight not indifference; my apologies.
Member of Lantern Writers in Liverpool UK. We assist writers from original idea to staging the work. Some of us act in the productions. Most of the stuff I get is comedy two-handers. Usually between 10 & 20 minutes in length. Last month I got to do a 15 minute monologue for two nights.
Should have been in a further three productions but had to cry off. Hospital. AOK now. God bless NHS
@aldersprig Digging in the garden. Doing some #landscaping (though we've hired a lot out this year, since we've got some major projects that need doing over the next few years). Cheap beer and BBQ.