Greetings, Fellow Plant Planters And Seed Sowers!
How's your year going so far? I started my first gardening session of 2022 with a blast! And I am going to tell you about it.
The blast was very much literal and it came literally because I turned out to be only half prepared.
I was about to build a small cover for some experimental super early carrot growing test. Beneath a good cover they might have been able to develop from seeds and get ready for the picking by late march or early April...
I don't know if we shall know because today's attempt was not a glorious success. Perhaps I have to make a clean shot at it again in the weekends to come.
But let me tell you of today's fiasco.
It all started neat, at first. I had a wooden frame prepared ahead of time. Using some additional thick wooden sticks as poles and some nylon rope for binding them together with the initially attached ones, I made the support a bit sturdier.
Kitchen nylon is thin and not quite long but I had little surface to cover, so I gave it a try. It was still looking good.
My initial plan, though, did not account for the possibility of future snowfalls and the thin nylon on top would give way in such an event...well even in the event of rain in the next three months which is pretty much guaranteed.
So I decided to use a few old bus windshields that I had at my disposal. Don't ask me how I had them there. All right, I shall tell you. They are family treasures passed down from one generation to the second next. Anyway.
The light wooden frame would not support them as well, so I decided on adding a few iron rods to the design.
But as the Power Metal band Blind Guardian say,
Joyful it seems but...
Then suddenly,
By one false move it's blown away.
I used four rods altogether so that they would support two windshields at an angle. Adjusting the second one to close the gap a little bit better, I might have slightly struck the first one. Edge to edge, sideways.
And it burst so unexpectedly and so bad...
I even cut myself a bit on the thumb while trying to remove the larger pieces of glass from withing the experimental carrot field.
I tried writing "FAIL" with my blood but I failed even at that.
Still unwilling to quit, I fetched two more windshields, though lesser of stature.
When failing, roll on with it. That is my motto and I continued wrapping the holes as far as I could manage with poor design and little material. Not quite happy with the results. Annoyed, actually. But, eh...it's experience. I shall plan the whole thing through next time and see if I can get a better execution.
Who knows...there might still be carrots from this experiment. Hope is alive.
Come on, ride the bus!
Come on, ride the bus with us!
— from a version of "The Wheels Of The Bus Go Round And Round"
Even though this one looks as if somebody went A.A.! on the rest of the passengers.
Anyway...as I said, there might still be an early carrot or two. We shall see. That's it for now.
Peace and Parsley!
Yours,
Manol