I LIKE
PULLING UP STUFF---RADISHES, CARROTS, TURNIPS, AND ESPECIALLY DIGGING POTATOES. Those all are ever-so-much easer than
picking stuff—beans and peas and even squash and cucumbers, with their stickery
leaves and penchant for hiding the best specimens beneath the most verdure.
And it’s
MUCH more fun---the thrill of the pull, the dropping of little clods of earth
to reveal the yea or nay of the find: a
nicely developed carrot, golden and plump, a glowing little red juicy radish,
or a tee-ninecy sad thread of root, not yet caught on to that growth thing. You never know just what you’ll get, like
one of those tangle-of-ribbons things at a bridal shower, where you pull the
grosgrain, knotting up with that lady you nod to at PTA, and finally realizing
that HER ribbon has the little gold ring on the end, and yours has the plastic
spoon.
MSW photo
Our farmers market opens May 1 , looking forward to some little new potatoes and green sweet boiling onions. Love the photo of the garden.
ReplyDeleteI had not thought about that for a long time but pulling radishes in the hot sun was always a unique thing to do. Pulling them up and out seeing what the size of the radish might be once it is freed from the ground.
ReplyDeleteNice carrot, Rachel. I've not planted a thing this spring.
ReplyDeleteNEVER played that game at a bridal shower before! What's it called?
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Kelley~
I hadn't heard of that game either. Sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteJust waiting for my carrots to come up. I never got around to planting them last year, I kept misplacing the seeds. We got plenty from the garden in the empty lot next door and that was the favorite thing for the grands to get - they loved the crazy ones with lots of shoots on the sides ( don't know what you call those things!)
I'm a farmer/gardener at heart but not much of that going on here now!. I DID set out some multiplying onions today, does that count as gardening?
ReplyDeleteHi Rachel, This is such a lovely post and gardening with love is nothing less than awesome. I am sad to say we do not have a garden as such but we plant some veggies in containers. Gathering veggies from our garden when I was a child was a chore but one we had fun with. Shelling peas together with our mother under a shady tree in the yard is a fond memory.
ReplyDeleteThe cake is beautiful and the ring and the spoon adorable. Our great niece is getting married in Sept. and we sisters will be giving her a shower. I will remember this lovely cake.
I am off to get a much needed haircut. wishing you lovely days.
Love, Jeanne