Hmm. It’s rather an unfortunate spring in the Pacific Northwest to have a garden blog. Given the copious rain and gloom, it’s like trying in vain to stretch posts through the long, dreary month of February, but without the diversion of spectacular convention center garden shows. Perhaps I should take up garden knitting. Yeah, maybe I’ll knit me some veggie cozies, just in case the sun never does emerge this year.
As I gripe about the weather, please enjoy the tulips. Notice that they have sun shining through them, which is entirely misleading. In fact, if you live in the Pacific Northwest, you know I could only have taken these photos on one of our three sunny days in the past month. And it wasn’t yesterday, although yesterday was lovely. I think we broke 60 degrees. On the local news last night, the weatherman actually said, “I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you when we’ll next see a sunny day. Perhaps you should take up knitting.”
Given that my blooming trees still aren’t, I’m sure glad I planted so many tulips this year or I’d have bupkis. Also, I should mention that although my own tulips are stunning this year, most of these photos were taken in the Roozengaarde display gardens at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival because they plant half a million bulbs. And I don’t.
Bupkis is also exactly what I know about knitting. But how hard could it be to knit a zucchini cozy? Isn’t it basically just a sock? Maybe I shouldn’t even get started on the veggie garden, lest I work myself into a stew. The radishes that I planted over a month ago just got their first true leaves, and they were supposed to be edible in 21 days. Also, it’s hard to knit a cozy for a root veggie.
My sugar snap peas that I also planted a month ago are still only two inches tall, so we’ll be eating those well into July. Just in time to yank the spring vines and plant the fall crop. How long do you think it will take me to knit 90 long, thin scarves to twine around my pea plants to hustle things along?
And I’m beginning to wonder just how many times I can “cut and come again” before my overwintered lettuce is exhausted because my spring-sown is just barely germinated. I’m thinking modified toilet paper cozies with a nice tri-color orange yarn for the lettuces.
And in a pure fit of spite, I seeded my green beans and started my summer squash last week. But I am having serious doubts about even attempting tomatoes this year since they’re a crapshoot in even the best of Pacific Northwest summers. Hmm. Knit one, purl two.
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