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Gardening and Touching Grass

Gardening and Touching Grass

as an act of defiance

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Bonita Jewel
Mar 22, 2025
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Over the past month, I didn't post anything new here. I expected that during my break, I might plan out posts for the spring, think about topics I might write on and perhaps do a couple of rough drafts.

I did none of that.

It was a busy month in many respects, with a variety of highlights as well as low points, as I'm sure your month has been as well.

If there was any one activity I probably spent the most time on this past month, I’d venture to say it was gardening (if you don't count things like housekeeping, editing work, and sleeping.)

It has been a joy weeding, hoeing, sifting compost maturing for over a year (my first attempt at composting), and planting seeds. These are seeds I bought last year, but only planted very few.

I decided that this is the year I will plant all the things.

I researched companion planting. Many years ago, in a Native American culture class, I learned about the “three sisters”—corn, beans, and squash. I just happened to have those very seed packets from last year.

This past weekend, I spotted the first shoots of corn. Only three so far compared to all the seeds I planted. Perhaps I should set more in the ground.

Three small shoots of corn.

One weekend, my husband and I worked together to raise the fence of the garden bed as our rabbit had made that space his home and greatly enjoyed the kale and broccoli growing there. We raised the fence so he could no longer access it.

Less than a week later, the rabbit went missing.

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