Wednesday, October 18, 2006

kitty litter potatoes

i got my greenhouse up again. dunno if you recall but last time i put it up, it got mangled and blown into the air in a windstorm. this time i put it in a half protected position near a fence and some trees.. and what happens after three days of calm, melt-your-ass-to-your-balls hot weather, as soon as i put it up again. BANG! storm. but HAHA!! this time i lashed every one of its eight feet to massive buffy size ground stakes banged into the earth with a mini sledge. i then put bricks all around the plastic edges and heaped all my garden tools on top of those. i could hear it rustling all night and had visions of it greeting me in the morning all ripped to shreds (the fence it's next to is barbed wire.. not alot of choice around here) but lo! i opened my front door to a very normal looking greenhouse (apart from the fortress of weighty things gathered at it's base) so off i go to frolick in my garden like a really overweight, sarcastic fairy.. i may even put a floral wreath on my head and sing.. what the fuck.. we got rain last night-time to celebrate! oh a whole punnet of my tomato seedlings died. little cunts.. just cause i left them in a styro box with plastic too tight over the top for them to breathe.. pussies.. i'm layering the soil in this greenhouse so i will top it with seed raising mix then just plant the delicate seeds right in the bed there. fuck punnets.. seed trays are maxi-gay. they're either gonna grow where i put them or they can get fucked!! i cannot be fucked coddling little gay ass trays of pussy seedlings anymore. grow or die. i have enough seed and veg varieties so that it doesn't matter anyway so ner... oh! and grossness! i was digging over the spot to put the greenhouse, it used to be my old compost heap, where i dumped everything from grass clippings to veg scraps to cat litter (the pellet stuff made from old newspaper) and there was this massive chunk of globbed together cat litter-like about three trays worth- and while i was breaking it up with the pitchfork (insert banjo music) i found a whole network of really yummy lookin potatoes that had grown in there! dunno if i'm hungry enough to eat something that grew in cat shit.. must've been the ammonia in the piss and the nitrogen in the poo that encouraged them to multiply so rapidly (yay chemistry.. ammonium nitrate = mega fertiliser) the largest potato seemed to be trying to get away so i picked it up and it had been hollowed out by a seething mass of slater bugs.. thank GOD for gardening gloves. ah nature. so gross, so surprising and entertaining!!

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