Whole family is down sick, so the several longer essays I've been working on are on the back burner while I wash sheets and tend cranky little people. My own retreat when things are in crisis is to the perfect spring garden of my imagination - especially valuable after several days of pouring rain (and our roof needs replacing) and then a giant ice storm.
My roof may leak, the children whine and I'm not feeling so hot myself, but in my head, it is spring, and I'm sitting on a mulched pathway, transplanting delicate baby seedlings into the garden bed. In my imagination it is warm, and sunny, and smells of earth and herbs.
And I get to fantasize about new things - what will the wolfberries taste like fresh? How much skirret do I want? And of course, my garden will be plenty - no running out of strawberry jam in January next year, this year's strawberries will burst off the vine and into the jars all by themselves.
And, of course, there seed catalogs to "help" me envision it. Lush, perfect plants in world without weeds in color saturated photos - of coures my herb garden will look just like that, with the orange calendulas, the purple sage and the chive blossoms harmonizing.
It won't be like that, not quite, although it will be wonderful, but a girl can dream. What are you dreaming about?
Sharon
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It doesn't feel like spring here either, but the last few mornings I have noticed the birds making a bit of a racket, so hopefully they know something I don't!
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I'm dreaming of planting two tiers of three types of blueberries and dividing up the one rhubarb to become multiple plants. My first attempts at edible landscaping! Oh, and I want to tuck in some edible and useful flowering plants like calendula, yarrow and maybe even borage. There'll be the two or three tall raised beds for our experiments in food growing with pollenator attractors (floweres to be determined later) arranged all around. The raspberry canes we transplanted last fall will bloom and produce berries and produce lots of new canes. My attempts at growing onions in self watering containers will be successful. Our pile will compost quickly so we can use it the following year. And, finally, the moose won't wander through and consider the yard their own personal salad bar.
Alaska dreamin'...
Kerri
Me on the beach in Jamaica with my kids far, far away (but being responsibly cared for by their grandmother)and a really hot, shirtless, exceptionally good looking waiter who delivers me pina coladas every half hour.
We are about to go into our main planting season too. Summer is too hot for may things, so we have big plantings in March and April to catch the cooler weather.
I am dreaming of eating snow peas off the vine, of lovely crisp cabbages and radishes. I wish for a wetter winter than last year (dry as a bone, it was) and enough rainfall that the garden will thrive without too much attention. I am imagining myself diligently recording the details of my plantings and harvests in my diary (but fear that it won't be done regularly enough). I'm looking foward to long days in the garden without the heat chasing me inside before 10am!
I wish you well for Spring and hope your family recovers soon!
I'm dreaming of sun!! And some dry land!! It seems to have rained constantly since November or so, the garden is a bog, everything is drenched in water, our road is a mudhole. Even if it's quite warm it's impossible to work in the garden because it's so wet!!
No winter, no snow, no sun. Just grey, damp, foggy nothing. Which is EXACTLY how global warming is supposed to look like in our part of the world...
Oh, well, I'll put on woolen socks and rubber boots and head out into the garden anyway to look for signs of spring. At least the birds are singing.
Christina in SW Sweden
I had a literal garden dream last night. I was organizing a school garden, and it had runner beans and GIANT carrots and lots of herbs. And a patch of interspersed chamomile and clover like I'm thinking of actually putting in the front yard. I hope mine turns out looking anywhere near that lush.
I'm dreaming of less sun and heat and more rain. Now at 10 a.m. in inland South Florida, it's 99 degrees Fahrenheit, unprecedented for early February. Global warming, indeed! It's too hot for the kale and broccoli, but at least the collards and arugula are doing well.
Get well soon!
~Vegan
I'm looking out at a foot of snow and thinking of warmth and sunshine, of the plans to take out the parking spaces that are occupying a third of the available space in the back garden, and the new raised beds DS and I will build and set down in their stead.
I'm thinking of the hazelnuts and currants and almonds we'll plant this year, of the herb garden and crabapple trees my neighbour Christine and I are going to put in where the driveway separates our houses now, of tearing out another ten feet of the front lawn alongside the brick path that leads to the front door and filling the space with lavender and herbs and xeric flowers.
I'm wondering how well the fig trees will do this year, with three times the normal annual snowfall waiting for the spring melt and no water restrictions (and two more rainbarrels on order), and if we can find space for more grapevines, and working out a fair swap of our apricots for apples and pears and some of my neighbour's honey.
I'm hoping winter passes soon.
Hope your children are well again soon, Sharon.
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更新日期:2009/08/25 17:19
(中央社訊息服務20090825 16:19:17)大環境不景氣，工作難找，有不少人就想乾脆自己創業當老闆。為強化國內創業能量，五路財神開店總部於8月20日-9月20日舉辦「2009夢幻小餐車創業成果展」歡迎蒞臨參觀。針對國內一窩蜂創業加盟潮，餐車達人陳滌五總監提醒創業者，加盟不失為一條創業捷徑，但若選擇加盟，品牌知名度、產品獨特性及是否擁有差異化優勢就顯得格外重要。
近年來以成本低的小吃餐車最受創業者青睞。沒經驗的失業族 大部份都選擇餐車擺攤，最多人都想在創業市場闖出一片天。在台中成立的五路財神開店總部，小吃餐車用品牌方式來營運，總經理陳滌五用自己的經驗來現身說法。以國人創業首選的小吃餐車來說，如何在同質性高的市場中殺出重圍？雖然是路邊攤小餐車，營運上的重要撇步是關鍵；在企業經營戰略中，唯有領先核心競爭，保持差異化優勢才是生存之道。
陳總分享成功關鍵，「五路財神餐車與其他路邊攤最大的差異化，在於餐車外觀亮眼與眾不同的加分效果，及秉持結合好的小吃產品用品牌方式來經營的理念」。總部成立初期因觀察到傳統路邊攤想要爭得一席之地，大多考量商品創新的迷思，卻忽略創業者經營能否持久性的問題。所以五路財神餐車將傳統小吃商品，用創新工法為策略，顛覆傳統路邊攤的概念，長期下來在台灣建立起最多元品牌的餐車王國。
很多創業者最憂心沒經驗，業界首創從餐車打造、生財器具、原物料配方、技術教學、促銷廣告、開幕指導，「一條龍的創業輔導」模式，使得五路財神餐車品牌特色更為彰顯。陳總說，不景氣下小吃餐車經營是加倍艱辛，建議創業者不但要瞭解小吃經營的核心價值，凸顯產品獨特性及差異化之外還要定期和你商圈的客人互動，「好餐車、好商品、好客人」，三個好，如此才有可能成為「不敗的小吃攤」。
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小吃餐車加盟連鎖「一條龍的創業模式」複製成功開店
經驗
更新日期:2009/08/25 17:19
(中央社訊息服務20090825 16:19:17)大環境不景氣，工作難找，有不少人就想乾脆自己創業當老闆。為
強化國內創業能量，五路財神開店總部於8月20
日-9月20日舉辦「2009夢幻小餐車創業成果
展」歡迎蒞臨參觀。針對國內一窩蜂創業加盟潮，餐車
達人陳滌五總監提醒創業者，加盟不失為一條創業捷徑
，但若選擇加盟，品牌知名度、產品獨特性及是否擁有
差異化優勢就顯得格外重要。
近年來以成本低的小吃餐車最受創業者青睞。沒經驗的失業族 大部份都選擇餐車擺攤，最多人都想在創
業市場闖出一片天。在台中成立的五路財神開店總部，小吃餐車用品牌方式來營運，總經理陳滌五用自己
的經驗來現身說法。以國人創業首選的小吃餐車來說，如何在同質性高的市場中殺出重圍？雖然是路邊攤
小餐車，營運上的重要撇步是關鍵；在企業經營戰略中，唯有領先核心競爭，保持差異化優勢才是生存之
道。
陳總分享成功關鍵，「五路財神餐車與其他路邊攤最大的差異化，在於餐車外觀亮眼與眾不同的加分效果
，及秉持結合好的小吃產品用品牌方式來經營的理念」。總部成立初期因觀察到傳統路邊攤想要爭得一席
之地，大多考量商品創新的迷思，卻忽略創業者經營能否持久性的問題。所以五路財神餐車將傳統小吃商
品，用創新工法為策略，顛覆傳統路邊攤的概念，長期下來在台灣建立起最多元品牌的餐車王國。
很多創業者最憂心沒經驗，業界首創從餐車打造、生財器具、原物料配方、技術教學、促銷廣告、開幕指
導，「一條龍的創業輔導」模式，使得五路財神餐車品牌特色更為彰顯。陳總說，不景氣下小吃餐車經營是加倍艱辛，建議創業者不但要瞭解
小吃經營的核心價值，凸顯產品獨特性及差異化之外還要定期和你商圈的客人互動，「好餐車、好商品、
好客人」，三個好，如此才有可能成為「不敗的小吃攤」。
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