The older I get, the more I kick myself about having such a high-maintenance yard and garden. My kids are plenty old enough to do the mowing, but they are still too short. But Princess learned to use the new lightweight electric string trimmer (which is less powerful but more reliable than the old gas trimmer), and that’s a big help. We don’t have a tiller, and the guy with the tractor is never in a hurry to plow. So for early planting, I built a small raised garden with concrete blocks and filled it with soil and compost. I planted carrot and broccoli seeds. Guess what came up? Pumpkins, sunflowers, and tomatoes. Looks like my compost didn’t cook itself thoroughly over the winter! But the plowman came Friday, so I’ll be out in the big garden putting out tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and corn for the next couple of weeks.



Pacarrotman (via Neatorama)

The New Shapes of Garden Produce. You, too, can grow square watermelons or squash with a face!

Music to Mulch By.

Attack of the Killer Broccoli! You are the asparagus in this game. (via Neatorama)

The Top 20 Pop Culture Plants.

The Color of Plants on Other Worlds. Light of any color could power photosynthesis, so yellow mountains’ majesty or purple waves of grain would be possible.

Facebook group plots global carrot rampage. (Thanks, Bill!)

Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants. 

Not Your Ordinary Plants.

Sprout. An artistic point-and-click game. The point is to get off the island. (via Dump Trumpet)

Vegetable Porn. (via mental_floss)

Children’s Play Equipment and the Decline of the American Lawn.

The Three Sisters Garden. Native American planting solves garden problems the natural way.

TOOLS

The teacher has 3 garden tools at the front of the classroom. She holds up the shovel and asks Emily "What is the name of this garden tool?"

Emily replies "That's a shovel!"

The teacher says "Yes, now what tool is this?" as she is holding up the rake.

Jimmi raises his hand and answers "That's a rake!"

Holding up the garden hoe, the teacher asks Johnny "What garden tool is this?"

Johnny replies "I don't know.." and the teacher tells him it is a hoe.

Johnny, puzzled, replies "My sister is a hoe and she doesn't look anything like that."

VEGETABLE RACE

(via Phil’s Phun)
A broccoli, a tomato, and a yam were running in a race.

The broccoli got off to a great start, but being a green runner, didn't have the strength to finish the race.

The yam and the tomato were neck and neck for the first stretch, but the tomato quickly fell behind.

The yam was about to reach the end of the track, but collapsed in exhaustion right before the finish line.

In the course of an hour, the tomato ran the entire length of the race, and won.

Why was the tomato so successful?

The tomato paste itself.

Morning Glories (via Arbroath)

So that’s how they do it! This video shows how morning glories find and twine around any support they can. One frame was shot every ten minutes.

Previously at Miss Cellania: Garden, Gardening, Harvest, Tomatoes, Lawn Mowing, and Spring.

Thought for today: Gardening requires lots of water -most of it in the form of perspiration.  ~Lou Erickson

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