Kia ora,
It’s a sunny day following on a few cold rainy very windy days, so I thought here’s a go. April. Planting time.
Remember I tell myself. On Anzac Day – plant broad beans. Working back from that, plant greens – lettuces, silver beet, already got spinach, and the perpetual one too. Some carrots. I cheat a bit these days and use the taped seeds.
It seems to me that planting in April is as good a way to remember as all the speeches in the world.
Planting in April has an added virtue – it will feed, and not just me.
I remember my first job (I was about five) was weeding. I wasn’t that good at it, or even interested. But I was told to do it so I did. Then I progressed to be allowed to plant things. Only vegetables of course. You only took time to plant things that would feed us. Nothing time-wasting like flowers.
I have swerved a bit from that – I like a garden to be inclusive so I have flowers along with the vegetables. An apple tree and I got five jars of jelly from the crabapple tree this year.
There are lots of things to be part of – ending Zero contracts for one, housing the homeless for another – thinking about wars and how nobody wins – that was a Kris Kristofferson song, but that doesn’t stop the words being true.
Wars have lots of losers too, in fact we all lose – there are no winners.
But – today it was sunny and I planted spring onions.
Renée
