The Ponder Garden Today

Just a quick note and picture from today. The garden is doing good despite the water rations. I finally dared look at the water meter today and found (to the thirsty plant's glee) that we're not over our ration limit. Now, if this wind will just die down tonight they'll all get a good soak!



Doesn't that look so much better than grass!

Ponder the World at Four

Last night when it cooled down outside I turned on the porch light and as the heat of the day eased into night my four year old and I sat on the bench looking out at the garden. (This is the view from the bench.)




The neighbors were also out next door and they had a bag that in the darkening evening looked like a great big snail, one of his favorite things to find and play with in the garden. The conversation went something like this.

Me: I don’t like snails because they eat our food
Him: But they don’t go in our kitchen.
Me: No, our food that is outside growing on these plants and trees in our yard.
Him: And what about snails in other peoples yards?
Me: Well most other people grow grass and people don’t eat grass.
Him: Why?
Me: I don’t know.

To him, at four, it is completely normal to have a vegetable garden in the front yard. The next door neighbors with the grass he refers to as ‘the ones with a park in front of their house’. Interesting isn’t it. I still don’t know why people have to grow grass.

Ponder Late Pictures

Better late than never; here are some pictures of growth over the last month.


Raising kids too - 4/25/2009



From the corner of the driveway - 5/3/2009


Chard Harvest - 05/08/09 6:55 a.m. - 3.5 hours later (washed, chopped and blanched) it waits for winter in the freezer