The fun stuff: April 14th 2020

Ahahaha. At last. I get to plant something fun. The soil is turned and weeded and ready. And I hope, willing.

I decided that I would start with seeds that have the word "Easy" on the packet. Just to be on the safe side, given that a couple of weeks of bumbling around the garden hardly makes me Vita Sackville-West.

What we have (in tiny packets of aspiration) are marigold, candytuft, larkspur, cornflowers that are not all blue, and poppies.

Seed planting really is an act of faith, though. I put these things in the ground and I add water and nice fine soil and I cross my fingers. That's all the experts do, right?

Anyone who knows me will attest that patience is not one of my known virtues, so waiting for results is going to be quite the test.

What I learned today

1. A new word: tilth.* Good word, yes? And I prepared what I hope classes as tilth for these little seeds.

2. Watering cans, in spite of their size and weight, hold a disappointingly small amount of water. Going up and down the (steeply sloped, remember) garden with cans of water is boring, but I have probably done my 10,000 steps.

3. I am still none the wiser about what is a weed and what is not. For instance, are the little spindly shoots in the general area of where I planted some cornflower seeds actual putative cornflowers? Or are they something else, something uninvited, coming into my garden and taking the cornflowers' water and nutrients? To cite the most cliched of journalistic sign-offs: time alone will tell.

*Finely prepared soil, apparently. And a potential Pointless answer if they ever do a round on words that end in 'th'.