Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
The Circle of Life
I’m slowly realising that life is full of cycles, and that my passions, interests and discipline moves in those cycles as well.
Often I think the reason I move from the ‘up’ part of the cycle (where I’m really committed to something), to the ‘down’ part of the cycle (where is put on the backburner for a while), is because I go too hard, too fast (kind of like what I was talking about here, but in another application…).
One of my renewed focus’ of late has been gardening/permaculture/herbs, coupled with natruopathy/healthy living/eating natural food etc. I am wanting to introduce/re-introduce a few things, including sprucing up the garden.
I had grand plans I had for the garden. Eggplants, Capsicum, Broccoli, Carrots- the lot! I think that this may have been my downfall last time. I didn’t spend time researching the best place to put these vegetables (sun wise), I didn’t have time to water them (and didn’t know how often they each needed watering) etc. So this time around I have decided to keep things smaller. To keep things more manageable.
I had a bit of a plan (it didn’t actually end up like that!) for how I will plant up these things:
Basil
Parsley
Tomatos
Rosemary
and some ground cover (low maintancence) herbs also.
Garden Plan
Obviously I am just trying to focus on these herbs, and not have too many different things growing. I’ve done some research on basil particularly, and am looking forward to researching some of the medicinal qualities it possesses.
I hope that as these herbs devleop, and I get into the the habit of looking after them, that I will plant some more… Any ideas what else I should plant?
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Herbs
So a while back I did this vodcast on Herbs- am thinking that I want to start a proper vodcast on gardening… not 100% sure yet. We’ll see!
Relaxing Saturday
It’s been a fair while since Luke and I have spent the day together just relaxing and hanging out, but today is the day!! Oh course, pepper is here too, but she is mostly just sleeping, or running around the backyard…
My potatoes are sprouting up REALLY well, and so Pepper and I did some gardening this morning- putting more soil on the potatoes so they continue to reproduce, and also watering all the herbs, and other vegies. We also dug up some new soil for the next vege garden, and found some old sleepers to make a herb garden with. Pepper was pretty excited about the shovel… she liked to try and bite it.
We’ve also done a bit of cleaning, and I made zucchini and basil soup for lunch. It was (suprisingly) VERY yummy. Luke loved it (!!!). I will post up the recipe some time soon (remind me). I’ve also done a bit of wii fit, which Luke is forcing me to do an hour of seeing as I ate a dominos pizza last night (not the whole thing, just half).
I also spent a bit of time cleaning up my work area, and setting up the G4. I am planning on sifting through that and putting all the content I want to keep on the external hard drive. Then Luke said something about setting it up as a server… or something like that. I was distracted at the time. I also want to set up a windows/ ubuntu machine, so that I can test the things I make in different operating systems. It’s always good to have one of each. 
not to use as the main computer though- only my baby mac mini for that.
You can look forward to seeing more Pepper videos in the future, as she’s getting a few comments on viddler, which is making me happy (comments always do!). Of late I am also enjoying watching pixar short films on youtube- something I don’t usually do, but it keeps away any signs of boredom (unless you count that as an actual sign of boredom).
We were going to hang out with Rachel & Aaron tonight, but they’re busy. So I think we’ll just watch a movie and chill. Kebab skewers for dinner, yum!!
Tags: garden, gardening, herb, Luke, mac, pepper, potato, relax, saturday, shovel, ubuntu, viddler, Windows
