Happy Saturday!

I finished it!

I finished building the new bug-proof greenhouse for my vegetables! It’s not the best-looking but it will have to do since I had no help. This was completely solo from the beginning to the end. No one to help me cut the pipes nor did I had anyone help me assemble. Around here, to ask for help seems to mean to ask for trouble or lecture.

Last weekend, I didn’t ask for help. I was just out in the garden chopping and dropping plant matter when my mom suddenly waltzed into the garden saying how I never do this, how I never do that. She was talking about weeding between the rocks and sweeping the patio. I hate it when she uses the word “never”. It’s such a strong word and no one should be using this word unless they have proof, which, in this case, she did not have proof.

Yes, I’ve swept the patio and the reason it didn’t looked swept was because we recently had a couple of storms, which blew a lot of debris onto the patio. I told her that but she didn’t believe me, for reasons I don’t understand. Why is it so hard for her to believe I do clean up after myself?

I was so incredibly angry after that that instead of chopping and dropping with a pair of pruners, I just used my hands (with gloves, of course) and ripped the plant apart to pieces. It kind of made me feel better but the anger never died. That day was last full day I got to work in the garden. After that day, I only had the precious hour between dinner and sunset to work, finishing up the greenhouses and getting things ready for the upcoming storms. Did I mention Wednesday was the start of the Persephone period? Growth will slow to a crawl and won’t resume growing until the end of January when the length of day is back above 10 hours.

I hope I get to work on the garden today but it’s hard to say since no one knows when the rain will stop. After today, there will be two more storm-free days before the first freeze hits around the middle of the week. The weather forecast is already predicting snow by next weekend. I want to build one more greenhouse but it looks that might have to wait until spring.

I will be digging out the frost clothes from the storage box for the garden tomorrow and see what I can salvage. Earlier this year, I left the brand-new thick frost cloth in a wind storm and it got torn to shreds. Hopefully, there are still small pieces which I can use to cover things like my container fig trees and my brussel sprouts, which are forming beautifully.

I hope you enjoyed reading my yammering about the garden. Thank you as always to Natalie hosting Weekend Coffee Share and for reading and have a great week ahead.