As it turns out, I can grow things other than babies! During this two weeks of intense illness, of children with fevers for days on end and parents who can do little more than doze on the couch holding them, my seedlings have sprouted!
I’d almost forgotten about last week when I had a decent low-symptom day and decided to try out our new peat pellet indoor greenhouse. I have a few regrets about not labeling my rows, but eventually we’ll be able to figure out what’s there, right? This morning I glanced over at the plastic box of 72 pellets and pushed up against the dome lid were a bunch of little babies, crying for space. So exciting!
This year we’ll be using containers to garden, since we never got around to building the raised beds or amending our sandy soil with compost from the massive compost pile. I’ve got some beautiful concrete planters and eleventy million giant black nursery pots, so I have high hopes that this year I will a) be able to tell weeds from plants and b) be able to keep my plants alive and bearing food since I’ll better control the watering and composting.
In Flu Watch 2009! news, one child is at school and two children, while coughing and snotty today, are fever free. Jack has refused to put a shirt on today and both of them had wheat thins for breakfast while shunning the fried eggs that they ASKED ME FOR. Little shits, I tell you.
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