Great news. We’re expecting carrots.
Loyal readers without a drink problem may recall that some months ago, when the Running Commentary garden was carpeted in two inches of snow, I mentioned my plan to become vegetably self-sufficient by the summer. Crunching through the January snow, it seemed like a good line. Struck the right balance between impressiveness and unaccountability, I thought.
But snow melts.
Since then, I’ve been nervously genning up on the subject. More than that. I’ve made the horrifying discovery that you can’t grow vegetables by computer. You have to go into the garden and actually make holes in the ground and throw stuff in there. Bizarre – and grubby.
Anyway, I gave it a go, and today, after what seems like several weeks of forlorn gazing at bare earth, I’ve spotted a tiny explosion of leaves around the carrot area. It’s a start.
Tomorrow, all fun must cease. Tomorrow is regime-change day.
Tomorrow. Always a good day for that sort of thing.
