had decided NOT to plant any vegetable plants. At some point, soon, it will all change gears and become GOING. There will be much to do. Gathering. Hosing down. Cleaning off. Stacking, piling. that's OutSide. Inside, well.... but it will happen suddenly. Gardens need things. They need above all else, time. Focus. Care. I thought about just starting things. and then telling Everett so he can carry on. But that's ify for the plants and i think ify isn't ok for plants. They need you for the duration. So i have been giving water to the bushes and trees. This means, toads and lizards. Spiders and beetles. Birds. maybe the snake?, most likely. But suddenly this morning, i was stricken by the thought of the
worms
all fall and winter i have layered Goat manure and scrap feed on the vegetable beds. Like always. But also partly more because i need to put the manure SomeWhere and Gideon's place has taken the space of the Big Compost. It's piled and incredibly GOOD.
the planting of the vegetables would have begun late April. But it didn't. Those beds have been still. Down, i don't know how far, the worms live, rising with water.
so today from dawn till almost Rim Time, i hand watered. Held the hose long moments on every bit of them, dug in with my hands to see if the water penetrated the heavy mulch. Staying staying staying till it did and when i dug in with my hands, i felt and saw such incredibly BEAUTY FULL
soil
black. black. no longer any trace of sand that it was. Earth. i lifted it to smell and held it for Tay to smell...it is intoxicating, that fragrance of composted Earth...partly the work of Worms.
so a Beauty FULL FULL FULL day, giving water to worms.
and while waiting for the water to seep in some places, i began gathering things that i might take.
