nags of a similar ilk

I'm not sure why, but, once again, I find myself gardening after dark.

I'm heading to Austin tomorrow for the SxSW Interactive conference (read: full-on web geek mode). I have a list around 25 items long of tasks I want to finish before I leave, and one of those is plant the blueberries I bought last week with Mom. We bought them, but I haven't planted them yet. We didn't plan them as my constant dsitraction as Mom wanted to work preventing even the planting to be done.

But, I hate when I buy plants and don't plant them soon enough and they die and I've just wated all theat momnu.

So, I started planting the blueberries this evening. I even left work early so that I could plant them.

After I gathered the blueberries, decided where I wanted to put them, dug a hole for the first one and only then did I realize I needed some compost to add to the dirt as I mixed it back into the ground around the plants.

And the only compost I have at the moement, since I didn't order my usual big pile that I order very year, was at the bottom of my compost bins.

Like nearly all my projects, this turned into a cascading list of tasks. If I wanted to dig the compost out from the bottom of one compost bin, I clearly needed to start the next compost bin. If I wanted to start the next compost bin, I needed to gather all the right materials. Having gone to a composting class recently, building a compost pile correctly was fresh in my mind. At the class, I realized a few of the mistakes I had done previously, and intended to minimize them with this pile. I had leaves from the neighbor's yard I had greens from the weeds in the back years (the weeds, and beautiful grasses that started growing a couple months ago, with the clover that's so pretty, too). My previous piles had layers of around 12" thick, where these would be only 4", so that the different materials mixed properly.

So, the first hour was spent building the new compost pile so that I could get to the good compost so that I could plant my blueberries. Always with the cascading list of tasks, never just do X and be done.

I managed four of the seven blueberry bushes planted. I hope the weather isn't too hot this weekend while I'm gone, and that the other three survive until I arrive home.