Gardening
Last year, I pulled up some stepping stones around our patio, turned them into edging, bought a bunch of soil and made semi-raised garden beds. But the soil I got from the supplier was kind of shitty. It clumped together and stunted the growth of all my seeds and starts. So over the past year, I’ve been composting and mixing in vermiculite, pearlite, worm casings, and coir. I’ve got a few winter veggie seedlings sprouting up in the furthest bed and today, on a whim, I turned some new compost from the tumbler into another section and sprinkled some rows of seeds out to see if anything takes. This year, instead of relying on haphazard notes on backs of envelopes to keep track of what went where when, I pulled out one of my handy-dandy blank craft paper notebooks and started officially keeping track. Here’s hoping this year we get more than a handful of snap peas and one head of lettuce. But any which way, I like doing it. Yard work is my best writing think time.
Do you have a non-writing activity that helps you with your writing?
Love it! Especially your assistant. :-)
For me it’s cooking, and this reminded me I could take better care of old recipe books of my grandmother’s, so they can be preserved for my daughter when she grows up.