Rain and Drunk Gardening
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It started raining yesterday. It
hasn't rained for at least two months.
So my wife and I were sitting out on
the back porch, having a few beers and
watching the rain, when it stopped and
the sun came out. That's when she had
a sudden inspiration: "Let's finish
planting the garden!"
My wife has the best bad ideas!
We're way behind with the planting.
After the trip to Maui, we decided to
relocate the garden and it was a lot
of work. The new garden spot is
raised, and sits behind a concrete
wall. I worried that if we over-
watered we would put too much pressure
on the wall, so I dug it all out and
put in weeping tile to drain it.
Anyways, that project (and a couple of
others) set us back even more.
So we grabbed our beers, the seeds,
and a few tools, and set off for the
garden. The tomatoes and cucumbers
were already in, so we planted
carrots, radishes, beans, and lettuce.
While we were working the sun set, and
by the time we finished it was pretty
dark. But it all went exceedingly
well. Or so I thought.
I got up this morning and the rows
*look* like drunk people planted them!
We were really umm... creative with
the placement. The rows go in all
directions and nothing is particularly
straight. I've never had to put extra
posts along the strings to reroute
them along the planting lines, but
that's what I had to do today. I'm not
sure how we're going to explain this
when the seeds start to sprout and the
relatives begin to visit....