HERB - gardens, mowers, and tomatos

Gaylin Walli gwalli at infoengine.com
Thu Apr 29 08:05:08 PDT 1999


Christianna asked:

>Congratulations!  And what would your husband do with more "yard" (I am
>assuming grassy) but have to mow it?

He had some fool notion about archery until I 'splained to him the concept
of "city ordinances" and pointed out that the total depth of the lot was
116'. I supsected he hadn't thought he'd need to shoot around the garage
in order to pull that one off. He's a good shot, mind you, but not that
good.

>Tell him how lucky he is that he will not have that task, but will be able
>to sit and enjoy the lovely fragrances wafting in from the garden!

It may be suicidal to mention, but I think I am married to one of the
few men in the world who begged me to allow him to buy a human
powered push-style mower. "Please honey? I want to mow the
lawn. I *need* to mow the lawn." I told him he could mow the front
lawn so all the other spouses in the neighborhood could see him. And,
of course, because the backyard was mine. :)

You're right about the lovely fragrances, though. I've started sketching
out plans for medieval and rennaisance plant inclusions in the yard, but
I have to have a chance to see how the neighbors' trees on the two yards
to each side of ours will change the shade patterns over the course of
the day. Choosing period plants doesn't seem to be all that difficult
(though I admit to being biased toward delicate flowers and unique
foliage), but figuring out where to put the plants will be the big challenge.

Someone stop me. I've got a wish list order going with various seed
companies and there are already 4 different tomato varieties in my
shopping cart! I have no idea which varieties the Spaniards would have
grown. Do we know? (FYI, I'm refering to the mention in, ooh, Gerard?
The one that says something like "The Spaniards eat them sliced with
<spice> and <oil or vinegar>.") BMBAAH -- but my books are at home.

>Good luck on the move, and now that the closing is over, the real fun
>starts!

Especially considering something else that just struck me....the
current owners have a swimming pool which they are removing
for us. Having never had a pool, I'd be guessing here, but isn't it
true that in setting one up a large layer of sand is typically put
down underneath the pool in order to save on wear and tear for
the liner? If this is the case, I'm going to have a bit of soil-ammendment
work to do before completely making over the backyard. :)

Jasmine de Cordoba, Midrealm
jasmine at infoengine.com or gwalli at infoengine.com
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