You know, mama just loves the information given her by our garden guru who lives next door and who ‘farms’ that great garden upon which I gaze daily. Here’s another photo just so you remember it from other blogs.
Not shabby, eh? But right now it looks like this, being prepped for all the root vegetables that Jean will plant as the full moon wanes. And at the last of the full moon, when the moon is veille, when the moon looks like a new moon but isn’t, he will plant the seeds for those vegetables that flower.
Mama just loves all this wisdom from gardeners she has known who plant by the elements or specific holidays or moon wanings or sea changes or wind directions and believes it all works, even if a bit magical. But it was trial and error when the first humans starting agriculture without charts or almanacs or knowing what the heck they were doing and so all of that wisdom has come to mama from long ago, honed and edited by recent gardeners.
And I am totally convinced that if you plant root vegetables when the moon has just become full, it will get mama out in the garden, maybe even at night with the actual moon shining down on her efforts and then maybe, just maybe, that hunky black kitty will be slinking around wanting to say howdy…
Moon’s still full.
Hmmm…maybe tonight’s the night. Mama, get out your sprouted garlic and seed potatoes. We’re hitting the dirt right after MY dinner!
Hey, I’m waiting here on Annapurna for my kibble. Do you want to get those garlics in the ground or not?
Wow, that’s quite the “garden” your neighbor has! No planting happening here. There’s still too much snow on the ground.
WOW, SNOW!!! We’ve only seen it once here. What island are you on?
Good thing your Mom has you to supervise her planting. We have a couple months to go before we can plant.
Well, it snowed here in late March two years ago so I hope those little ‘taters are okay!
Are you a Gardener’s Cat-Sistant, Miss Loulou? Or are you doing the gardening with your human assisting you?
Inquiring kitties want to know!
Purrs,
Lilith, Rosco, Tina, & Lucky
The Feline Contingent
Florida-USA
Well, you know its really Loulou in the garden being assisted by mama, right. You guys are so savvy…
Where are you sitting, Loulou? Is that the garden wall?
That’s a rock that was in the house when mama and papa bought it and the guys before us just built a room around it so this is mama’s office. And that’s my “Anapurna” for exercise…