I still can't decide if I should hang them up with branches or with a round and if i should use fish wire, colorful threads, or yarn, or ribbon to hang the elephants to the mobile with.
tough decisions here people. life changing, tough decisions...
also if you are wondering how they got to be so cool and lumpy and old fashioned looking (not) it's because they are! i stuffed them with tissues...
so, they kind of look like a fundraising project for africa made by a child or something.
yesterday I was looking at our now vineless arch in the backyard and thinking about what could go there- my mom in law really wants to replace as much of the landscaping in the backyard as she can with some sort of food plants/trees so i thought GRAPES. So we went down to cooks nursery and got some good grape plants (i almost went green seedless but then i remembered how well the dark red one's grow in utah their name starts with an H (which doesn't help you now but i'll remember to tell you later what kind it is) so we got those even though they looked much more spindly/stickly and were younger than the green grape plants) so I picked the two that were winding around all the other ones, because it was obvious that those guys were climbers already!
IN addition to the grapes, we're jumping on strawberries and the early sunshine- I think we got 5 or 6 flats (roughly 30 mother plants) of strawberries, mostly Albion (two other varieties i really wanted to try and that were suggested)
which are really hardy and Day Neutral which means they produce a heavy june crop and all through the summer and one last time before they die in the fall. AND they are resistant to all sorts of diseases! All we have to do now is keep the chickens far far away when the fruit blooms and the insects farther.
I'm glad we went down to the nursery to get the plants because we were gonna order off of burpee and we called to see which strawberries could tolerate shade and the guy i spoke to had no idea what he was talking about. I felt bad for him, because he kept avoiding the answer by reading direct quotes from the catalog which was right in front of me...it begun with him telling me that california was a GREAT place to grow strawberries (which made me oober confused since i'm from california but i was calling on an 801 phone, how did he know?!) (the answer is, he didn't.) and then going through all the strawberry types they had and describing the one i "wanted" as dark red, with really red insides. REALLY?! STRAWBERRIES ARE RED ON THE INSIDE?! THIS SPECIES IS RED? gee thanks a lot coyote ugly. not. I ended the conversation as gently as I could, telling him he had been very very helpful.
and feeling like i'd been dealing with my insurance company. No answers for what i really wanted to know, and feeling like a scripted conversation.
so,
if you want to know what to grow go live at your local nursery.
it smells good to boot too.
ah i wish i smelled like that.
i also wish i had gotten dressed in something other than a dirty grey bathrobe with a mouthfull of cornbread before the sprinkler guy got here.
saweet.
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