Got a nice surprise from the garden this morning – lovely little purple bean flowers. Hope they taste as good as they look #EvilSnicker
“[There are] rhythms apparent to the eye and clear in their relations with one another. And these rhythms are at the very root of human activities. They resound in man by an organic inevitability, the same fine inevitability which causes the tracing out of the Golden Section by children, old men, savages and the learned.” -Le Corbusier
Wherein the green stuff starts turning into yellow stuff that then turns into stuff to be eaten.
Or, Basil’s just sulking until he gets the car keys and Marjoram brought home all As as usual.
Or, what would summer be without strawberries? And tomatoes and cucumbers and eggplant and summer squash and…
To rip my unsuspecting tomato (and still-producing) tomato and pepper plants out of the ground. Or not. That is the question.
Gardening is a lot like a zombie movie – shovels are often involved, dead (or seemingly dead anyway) things are constantly trying to break free of their earthly graves, and hideously mutant creatures (aka “insects”) abound.
I went out this morning to check on the tomatoes and seeded containers and saw this lovely row of new tiny sprouts. Just 100 or so more days and they’ll all be nice fat turnips, ready to be ripped out of the ground, butchered and roasted under the broiler for 40 mins…
It occurred to me once, while gardening, that plants have a lot in common with computers. They must be plugged in to run, perform specific sets of programmed functions, respond to external input, and die when unplugged. A friend further pointed out that plants, like computers, can also be “can be hacked to produce virii or insulin, have a built-in cycle of obsolescence, (and) require constant maintenance.”
