I’m not entirely sure where we’ll be living in late spring or summer. Actually, I’m not even a little bit sure, there are a few vague possibilities in the works. I am sure that we wont be living here for years and years to come, but I don’t know exactly when we’ll be moving. Let alone where. I don’t just mean “which house we’d move to” either, I mean “I can’t narrow it down to less than a 200km radius of our current address”. Which, I think you’ll agree, makes gardening a little tricky.
I do have my Diggers seed catalogue and I have been reading and annotating, but I have been unable to reach any decent conclusions because the various places I might live are in different climatic zones. So I’m dealing with occasional snow and lots of frost in one possible location in winter, and regular high 30s and low 40s type temperatures in summer in another location. I have a stash of seeds in the drawer which I should be starting now-ish. If only I had a seed raising mini-greenhouse type arrangement to do it in. I need to start seeds in seedling trays because the ground is full of broad beans that have barely begun to flower and I would very much like to enjoy the fruits of my broad bean labours. Moving house is probably a couple of months off at least, and I am a bit torn between not wanting to leave the garden and all the work we’ve put into it, and very much looking forward to a new, bigger, sunnier garden not over shadowed by a five storey building (which will be demolished in a few months and I don’t really want to be around for that either). I am also torn between getting seedlings started in trays all ready for our new hypothetical garden, and not wanting to move house with dozens of trays of seedlings because frankly we have more than enough stuff without adding delicate plant life into the mix. I am only considering new homes within my current state, so I don’t have to worry about crossing borders with the plant life and creating legal issues.
I know what you’re thinking, “what the hell is she getting all whiney on the internet for?”, and the answer dear reader is: please offer me a job, then I will know where I have to live.
The rest I can deal with myself.
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August 12, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Iona
Well, there’s this job going at a dysfunctional university in the western ‘burbs of Melbourne….
Nah, I didn’t think you’d be interested in what will shortly be my old job.
Does it work if you magick up a job all by yourself?
August 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Simply.Belinda
Good Luck on the job hunt.
I have to admit to the “wimps rules for moving” the day I know I am going to move
1) Any increases in packing stop at the front
door and get actively evicted.
2) Anyone entering my house is liable to leave
with stuff I don’t want to pack
3) Once its packed it doesn’t exist so live without
it
Basically in regard to garden planning… I would go for shorter season varieties in things like tomatoes so you will get away with sowing or planting them in November and still end up with a crop. If I was absolutely pining for gardening I would plant a couple of trays and just accept the fact that I will probably end up resowing at the other end.
Kind Regards
Belinda
August 15, 2008 at 11:06 am
Cristy
Oh I can relate to this so much. Paul might get posted to any number of places O/S at anytime and so I am constantly wondering if it is worth planting things in our not very sunny or productive garden only to have to pack up and leave them behind… Living in limbo can be very tiresome.
August 21, 2008 at 12:25 am
Melinda
I understand your conundrum completely on both counts. I can only hope that our garlic and other goodies we left behind were harvested… but we did manage to move lots of our seedlings, and they are growing strong! I would encourage you to go for the seedlings – if nothing else, the growth and nurturing will give your brain time to relax from the job hunt.
August 27, 2008 at 9:47 pm
kris
When we rented I always planted in the hope that we were giving a gift to the next tenants and leaving behind something better than what we had found. But usually, in the end we had to dig everything in and put pea straw over it all, to make the place look ‘neat’ for the real estate agent.
It’s a hard thing to figure out. Can you just plant sunflowers, as you once suggested to me?
September 23, 2008 at 11:35 am
mooimadeit
I say you should plant up what you can in styrofoam boxes and then you can take them with you!