tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post7211428563265747260..comments2024-03-28T20:39:15.991+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-88405468160294489422008-06-17T19:17:00.000+01:002008-06-17T19:17:00.000+01:00I love that Chinese saying. Must use it sometime.I...I love that Chinese saying. Must use it sometime.<BR/><BR/>I am a novice vegetable gardener, having had nothing but bad luck with it in the past. This time I made a raised bed first, and amended the soil heavily before planting, in the hopes that the yield will improve. I have been plagued with pale, anaemic, frightened vegetables too many times, and I think it's entirely appropriate to blame it on the soil. If I am disappointed this year, I suppose that means I've not got the green thumb for veg, and will stick to flowers forevermore.Shanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704810407872873565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-67499590246119367922008-06-17T14:35:00.000+01:002008-06-17T14:35:00.000+01:00Hey Jean-- I routinely shock people by telling the...Hey Jean-- I routinely shock people by telling them I don't have a TV, much less a DVD player.<BR/><BR/>They look at me in total disbelief and ask: "What do you do?"<BR/><BR/>I've ordered Sharon's book on the Lerwick shawl based on what you've written in the last few posts. (I was going to pass it by, but it sounds like there's some interesting stuff in it.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-63328558997412383902008-06-17T10:20:00.000+01:002008-06-17T10:20:00.000+01:00On the economics of gardening, I have found this y...On the economics of gardening, I have found this year that I will leave a bag of greens in the fridge, uneaten, for months, but I will gleefully eat fresh greens from the planter on the windowsill. A combination of pluses, there. <BR/><BR/>(The minus being that I can't seem to grow anything <B>but</B> greens!wrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596638915616709381noreply@blogger.com