Reading the Friday Yuk gave me the idea to start what I’m calling TR’s Garden Club. You can see how it started here: (scroll down) http://preview.tinyurl.com/yq7uda
Some of you may be wondering WTF but I think having a discussion where we can post pix of garden-related stuff is a good idea seeing as those of us in the Northern Hemisphere are moving into Spring and Summer and, chances are, we’ll be turning our attention outdoors to our yards and gardens.
Currently my yard and gardens are a mess. A BIG mess. Half my yard is under six inches of water. It’s the worst flooding in 29 years worth of memory. If it hadn’t flooded I’d soon be planting flowers and plants in a garden box I made last year and doing other much-needed yardwork when it warms. Since we are flooded I changed plans and am finally going to focus on working in our long-neglected rose garden.
Here’s what you have to do to belong to TR’s Garden Club. Participate with anything other than a flame. Flames will be graded for original content and/or ignored.
This is a chance for everyone to put that digital camera to some use. Take pix of a growing project and post ’em here. For those of you who don’t have a garden post pix of your favorite houseplants. For those of you who have neither consider getting started with a plant or post pix of the first flowers you see this Spring. Or post pix and commentary of whatever floats your boat.
I’m going to put serious effort into keeping the tone of this discussion light. Y’all feel free to laugh at my effed up garden. That’s fine. I know it’s not too long and it’ll look much better. It won’t turn this place into Shangri-La but it’ll make it just a little bit nicer outside.
Before we get started I want to say that I’m po’ folk so don’t expect to see me putting in fountains and ponds and whatnot. I’m going to focus on growing nice flowers. If they look cool and I’m not over-run with weeds I’ll figure I’m successful. Now, if you want to see something horrendous, take a look at this:
Seriously, you gotta be humble to post a picture like that. That is what I see out my back window. I hate the way it looks so I’m going to fix it as soon as the weather allows. Right now there’s a blanket of leaves covering the roses so they’ll survive the winter. I’m going to tear out the fence, rake it all out, weed out everything that’s not a rose and mulch the entire thing for weed-control.
Surely if I can post my gardening nightmare you can post yours.
Why not do this, if you’ve never grown anything, grab some seeds, throw ’em in a pot with some soil and take pix of what grows. It’s been my experience that growing something (homegrown?)
What’s any of this have to do with IT? Nothing. That’s the point. Gardening/growing plants is supposed to be relaxing. Why not take a small break from the stress of your job in IT and become a Garden Club participant.
Further, I’ll bet that no one has pix of a garden in worse condition than mine. Dead people have better looking gardens.
Post your pix or just check back to see if this discussion died on the vine. (I got a million of ’em.)
