No Matter How Small
I have always been a fan of container gardens. I think it hearkens back to my apartment days when my flat was absolutely inundated with pots of plants. Even now on the acreage we have I still primarily garden in containers. I take special joy in gardening over the winter. It just seems so ironic that when all is brown outside, I’m munching on fresh greens inside.
This winter is different. For the longest time, I ran a computing business out of the home - I was at the hale all day long. It was great. I’d set my clients’ computers to a task, be it various sundry scans or whatnot, then go play with the plants. However, a local business offered me a job I couldn’t turn down this last Fall. I still putter on computers at home for clients, but no-where near what I used to do. The drawback? I can’t just up and go to the greenhouse at any given moment. And… I never really got a winter-garden going this winter.
It’s a bit of a challenge switching gears and re-aligning my time-management habits to the new schedule - but I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. Especially now that the days are getting longer and the sun’s still up when I get off work.
Anyway, in spite of all that, I still managed a little impromptu container garden. I had dug one of the Kai Kea out of it’s bed and potted it up and brought it inside for the winter. The rest are dormant but I wanted to be sure that if the worst happened, I had at least one specimen. And, of course, every time I pass the pot that it’s in, I see all that dirt. Just one plant didn’t seem like enough…
Me wee little container garden.
So in a fit of desperate determination to have at least one little container of something yummy growing this winter, something that I could at any moment go harvest bit by bit, no matter how small it was - I found some spinach seeds and planted some. If anything, it was a therapeutic pleasure to see the little seed sprout and new spinach plants form, knowing that soon their fresh crispy leaves would grace a sandwich or salad. Folks, they ain’t gonna fill a tummy, but it sure is satisfying tossing a few of those leaves on a sandwich, knowing that they cost me no more than a few moments and a little TLC…
What’s the Moral of this Babble? If you do nothing else, get something, anything, growing in a little pot over the winter. It’s like a continuation of your gardening, even if it’s on a tiny scale. More of a benefit for the mind than the tummy, but still invaluable.
Stumble it!