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Gardening

This page is a mix of gardening logs and general reflections on gardening and growing!

Baby Corn and Big Beans! -

a photo of young green stalks (corn) in plastic brown pots on a rack next to young tomato plants
a photo of a sprawling bean plant with no beans in a small brown pot in a black container next to other young plants on a rack close to the floor

My corn plants are coming along great! I'm very please with how well they've grown and plan to pot them on sometime in late or mid April. They won't go outside until we're well past frost, which is about May. I've already staked out where they will go in the garden though just to make sure nothing gets planted there. The bean has become a fabulous beast due to a lack of support by yours truly. I've put some more beans out in the from garden in the ground just to see how they do but I don't expect they'll sprout for a while.

Painted Mountain Corn! -

a variety of colourful ears of corn hanging in a bunch
I finally started my painted mountain corn today. I planted six seeds, I don't have any photos of painted mountain specifically but the corn will hopefully look something like this when it's grown! I don't expect much of a harvest either because of the way Irish weather works, but it will be a fun experiment and I'm hoping to save seeds off of the plant that does the best.

Broadbean -

A picture of a short green beanstalk in a brown plant pot beside a window looking out into a back garden
I planted this broadbean back in Feburary. I don't have a lot of plants atm so I got to pay very very close attention to it as it grew, look at it now!

Worms -

Today I was digging up part of the front garden, the area I was digging up was a mess of the tangled roots of one plant that had grown and grown and in the soil were tons and tons of worms. I tossed the first one to a patch of soil nearby, and then realised that I should probably be more gentle with the worms, and I started to put them down gently. But then I wrangled free one small clump of roots and plant and soil and in there was a worm, tail still half buried in the dirt. So I laid the clump down gently and watched as this worm wriggled slowly across the dirt, found a spot to bury its head in, and very very slowly began to burrow into the ground again. I hadn't really watched worms since I was a kid, I've always liked them and been careful not to step on them, but it was something so beautiful to witness on a lovely sunny day. The way worms move is so beautiful, bunching up so thick and spreading out so thing, with all their ridges and different spots of colouring. It sounds a bit silly to have been so enamoured by a worm, but I was! It's a reminder I guess that taking things slowly and looking around at the world is always worth a try. (Ignore the irony of me now back on my laptop to type this) I'm very grateful for you worm, thank you for such a lovely moment.