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Jun. 12th, 2006 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikYesterday evening I realized that I'd gotten mixed up about which of my tomatoes were determinant and which were not, and the one that was growing crazily in the smallish pot was in fact indeterminant and should be given something much bigger. So I crossed my fingers and did some transplanting, and now everything is planted except for the lemongrass and some basil starts that are still kind of small. I'm still not sure quite where I want to put the lemongrass, but there's one pot left, and one thing to be planted, so I will probably bow to simplicity. So: three tomatoes (red urbikany, principe borghese, and matt's wild cherry) two peppers (gypsy and hungarian hot wax?) one eggplant, two tomatillos, one pot of zucchini... and then strawberries, rosemary, garlic greens, three kinds of basil, chives, parsley, thyme, oregano, vietnamese cilantro, mint, and sage... and tangerine sage and heliotrope just to be pretty. And a fig tree. Not bad for a collection of pots on the deck of the barge. I guess I haven't completely lost the gardening bug.
Earlier I'd gone tromping around Foster Island and the arboretum with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corivax and flata. "Tromping" because while it was supposed to be a walk in a park, the lake level is high enough that much of the trail was under water. Corvi went barefoot, and I envied it's toes squelching in the mud. (Especially after I managed to step into mud up over my ankle, and squelched when walking even on dry land.) Nice to have a chance to get caught up ;-)
I used to wear sandals for most of the year, and go barefoot all of the time indoors, and not infrequently outdoors. And then after the knee surgery I started wearing orthodics, and finding sandals that suit me became near impossible. (I do have a pair of Chaco's that's okay, but not really right, and mostly I won't bother to wear shoes if it's not comfortable to walk several miles in them.) A bit ago I picked up some Keen sandals, and then had a pair of orthodics made so I could wear them barefoot. And then the second or third time I wore them I totally overdid it, and had to take a break from them for a while. (Hmm, I thought, I think I'm getting hotspots on my heels. Perhaps I should put a band-aid on it, and change shoes when I get home. But when I looked, I realized I had completely torn up my heels, and my socks were soaked with blood. This, BTW, is why the increased pain tolerance is not a useful thing.)
So now I'm trying them again. For all that it was awful for my feet in legs, I do miss the days in which I ran around wearing $4 kung fu slippers all of the time.
Earlier I'd gone tromping around Foster Island and the arboretum with
corivax and flata. "Tromping" because while it was supposed to be a walk in a park, the lake level is high enough that much of the trail was under water. Corvi went barefoot, and I envied it's toes squelching in the mud. (Especially after I managed to step into mud up over my ankle, and squelched when walking even on dry land.) Nice to have a chance to get caught up ;-)I used to wear sandals for most of the year, and go barefoot all of the time indoors, and not infrequently outdoors. And then after the knee surgery I started wearing orthodics, and finding sandals that suit me became near impossible. (I do have a pair of Chaco's that's okay, but not really right, and mostly I won't bother to wear shoes if it's not comfortable to walk several miles in them.) A bit ago I picked up some Keen sandals, and then had a pair of orthodics made so I could wear them barefoot. And then the second or third time I wore them I totally overdid it, and had to take a break from them for a while. (Hmm, I thought, I think I'm getting hotspots on my heels. Perhaps I should put a band-aid on it, and change shoes when I get home. But when I looked, I realized I had completely torn up my heels, and my socks were soaked with blood. This, BTW, is why the increased pain tolerance is not a useful thing.)
So now I'm trying them again. For all that it was awful for my feet in legs, I do miss the days in which I ran around wearing $4 kung fu slippers all of the time.
