Spent an hour at the garden, did a little weeding. Its amazing how quickly weeds grow- hopefully our vegetables will experience the same miraclous growth next season. The peas have sprouted- not all the seeds germinated. The plants are about two inches high and I pulled the three inch high weeds that surrounded them.
Helped the Plot 21 ladies look for some lost keys. We laughed when they discovered that the lady with no teeth and no English had inadvertantly hung the keys (with a dark blue lanyard) on the dark green fence post in the front corner of our garden. How they found them, I don't know but the three of us had a good laugh.
The weather last week was miserable. Heavy rains from Hurrican Lee lasted for days.A twelve year old boy who lived 1/2 mile away was a fatality of the flooding. He lived on Marcliff Court- the same street as the Kane family and was last seen in his back yard- apparently swept up in a tributary of Difficult Run. Hard to believe- his body washed up on Lawyers Road.
I was supposed to sub on Friday (going to use the money for fencing for the garden) but school was cancelled because of the flooding. I'll work tomorrow so I'll have some fence money.
Nottoway Park, Vienna, Va has community gardens adjacent to Hunter House.I enjoy walking through the gardens and several years ago, I put my name on the waitlist for a plot (#99th on the list). This summer I received/was assigned plot #24. Since I am new to gardening I decided to start a blog to record my experiences. NOTTOWAY PARK is located at 9537 Courthouse Road. One can play tennis, basketball, volleyball, garden, picnic, use the fitness trail, or enjoy the quiet wooded nature paths.