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lady_kishiria) wrote2008-10-18 02:42 pm
lady_kishiria) wrote2008-10-18 02:42 pm
Good Karma Farms 2.1
Last year we had a lovely crop of tomatoes, green peppers and herbs. This year we started one, but I had to go away to Fort Jackson and Steve was too busy to maintain it so everything died.
Since we live in SoCal, we did a fall/winter planting. Spring/summer plantings are things that need a lot of heat and warmth, as with the aforementioned tomatoes and etc. Fall/summer plantings are hard vegetables that don't get phased by the occasional bit of frost, not that we even get a lot of that.
So now we have a beginning on broccoli, spinach and potatoes. If I can find turnip seeds I'll plant those too.
I'll miss growing herbs until the spring, though.
In other news, I got up this morning, ran a mile, felt good doing it, ran another half, found myself in Normal Heights, turned around, and only started getting tired after a couple of hills. I walked about a half mile and ran the last half. So three miles all told.
I have two running routes. One is the 3k Ghetto Mini-Marathon heading east down Orange Avenue to 42nd Street and turning around. That's one mile each way. The other is heading west over Orange, which turns into Howard over the 805 and continuing either to Texas Street (one mile) or Park Blvd. (1.5 miles). The westbound run has the advantage of not going through the ghetto since the farther west you go, the nicer the neighbourhood becomes. It also has hills, which are good or bad depending on what kind of run I want. I think I also may try just heading down to University and going west from there and seeing how long it is before I can make it into Hillcrest.
Since we live in SoCal, we did a fall/winter planting. Spring/summer plantings are things that need a lot of heat and warmth, as with the aforementioned tomatoes and etc. Fall/summer plantings are hard vegetables that don't get phased by the occasional bit of frost, not that we even get a lot of that.
So now we have a beginning on broccoli, spinach and potatoes. If I can find turnip seeds I'll plant those too.
I'll miss growing herbs until the spring, though.
In other news, I got up this morning, ran a mile, felt good doing it, ran another half, found myself in Normal Heights, turned around, and only started getting tired after a couple of hills. I walked about a half mile and ran the last half. So three miles all told.
I have two running routes. One is the 3k Ghetto Mini-Marathon heading east down Orange Avenue to 42nd Street and turning around. That's one mile each way. The other is heading west over Orange, which turns into Howard over the 805 and continuing either to Texas Street (one mile) or Park Blvd. (1.5 miles). The westbound run has the advantage of not going through the ghetto since the farther west you go, the nicer the neighbourhood becomes. It also has hills, which are good or bad depending on what kind of run I want. I think I also may try just heading down to University and going west from there and seeing how long it is before I can make it into Hillcrest.
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Good to know the running is picking back up.
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