How does your garden grow?
I haven’t given much thought to St. Patrick’s Day yet this year. Tuesday is kind of an awkward date for it. I guess for some last Saturday made the most sense for the Irish stereotype celebrations, but I don’t know. It seems like pushing things that early could be bad luck. I’ve got all of the ingredients for the traditional Irish-American meal, so I figure I’ll just toss those in a crock pot on Tuesday and watch The Quiet Man.
I wasn’t wearing the green this Saturday, but I did start drinking at noon. A friend from high school made a trip to the A this Saturday, which began with tapas and sangria for lunch and ended with me going home with an IKEA bookshelf and the new Lily Allen CD. There was some other stuff in there too, I think.
As for the rest of the weekend, I think I’ve hit the point where my misplaced ambition as far as plants has gone far enough. Last year I did pretty well with growing basil and oregano, I did ok enough with a mint sprig I bought from the grocery store and got to take root, and the garlic that I planted way too early, aiming for this year (it didn’t occur to me that first freeze in Georgia doesn’t mean it’s going to stay frozen) grew some scapes that made a nice extra touch in the stuffed squash I made for Thanksgiving. So I’ve proven that I can grow some things that can be used to delicious effect, and obviously that means I should completely overdo it this time around. I now have parsley, rosemary, thyme (no sage, at least not yet), cilantro, the mint from last year, some oregano cuttings from the old plant that I’m hoping will root, some basil, tomato and serano peppers planted from seed (not sure if the basil is going to work, I’ll just buy another plant if not), a couple of decorative plants that are supposed to do ok inside in low light, and some more garlic. I don’t know what’s going to come of all of this, but I bet it’s going to taste fantastic.