Productivity

Since my mysteriously early wake-up this morning:

• Made bread
• Also roasted 2 kinds of potato, made 2 kinds rice, and sauteed mushrooms: I try to turn the oven on as little as possible, so might as well use the heat while I've got it
• Took a shower (hot water, because oven)
• Trimmed the grass
• Ripped out some more vinca
• Mulched the un-mulched pots with said grass
• Separated Gift Squash into a plastic pot for when I get to see its intended parents again
• Washed dishes from a.m.'s cooking (see: hot water)
• Watered the darn acanthus (because dish water)

My gardening has shifted from 'what can I grow?' to 'what can I rot?' because the dirt in the pots is so exhausted and there isn't really any space to put plants directly in the ground. I'm growing what I can – mostly squash and beans because those don't mind poor soil so much – and trying to bank up as much compost as I can for next year. I cast a greedy eye over the bountiful greenery of June looking for what I can next cut back and add to the pile. Luckily there is a lot that needs cutting back in this overgrown garden, it's just a matter of separating soft stuff for the compost and hard stuff into the burn pile, to make ash for the compost. My next project is collecting and burning the fallen twigs under the willow to make room for a third compost heap. All roads lead to compost. This is a compost house now.

Now it is almost 11.30 and I have to sit down and do some WORK ... like I haven't been working all morning.