30 Tiny Moments: #25

25 April 2008

Posting a couple of letters at the end of the working day. I like our traditional red letterboxes. This one is Victorian, hence “VR”.

Later that evening, as dusk was falling, I decided it would be a good time to go out into the garden and set to work. Months ago I made a chart of what I wanted to grow in my vegetable patch and how far apart the rows etc would have to be. Using a trowel I marked lines in the soil; 12 inches from the fence for the broad beans, 8 inches from that for the second row and so on. And because I’m a GENIUS, I’ve sprinkled flour into those lines to make them show up better. GENIUS. I expect there’ll be a field of wheat out there by morning.

I marked the lines for broad beans, potatoes, onions and carrots leaving a blank space to match the blank space on my chart. The blank space where I ran out of ideas and didn’t want to grow lettuce. Seeing this space at full-scale made more sense than it had on paper and so the decision was finally made: I’ll grow some more sweetcorn. There’s room for 12 plants and if they overshadow everything, well then bugger it.