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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

The Garden of Good (and Barely Any Evil) : 2013 Part 2

Earlier this summer, I posted about my rather benign garden.  
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Look at the cute little seedlings.
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Admire the darling lettuces.
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It's so tidy and meager.  

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BOOM.  (To be fair, the children I grew seperately and the grill is not a natural occurence.)
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FOUR kinds of tomatoes, of which one variety has already ripened and been eaten.

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Lettuce.  Ah, shit.  Lettuce.  We had a pretty dismal spring and early summer here, so when I left for a couple days in mid-June, I didn't think twice about the garden.  When we got back, I had lettuce bushes and was completely overwhelmed by the amount of salad that was going to have to be consumed, so the bushes grew into trees while I nibbled my lip and worried over the growing amounts of nutrients that needed to be ingested.  I continued to distress that my crow's feet would surely be visible by the end of the month (due to the vegetable to relative age ratio) when The G and Mae Cake harvested the massive crop.  

A) Earwigs, dude.  *shiver*  I am very glad the family entomologists (Mae Cake, while scared of inchworms, loves observing all crawly things).  Apparently, one of the lettuce was a head lettuce, but the inside of it was rotten and was housing a very happy and large group of earwigs.  

B) Lesson learned: take care of your f-ing garden, or the earwigs will get you.  Your laziness will be punished by HORRIFYING BUGS.  

C) Maybe 2 lettuce plants next year, eh?  

Because 

D) EARWIGS!

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I might have some spacing issues also.  Last year, the morning glories were a total bust, and the sugar snap peas weren't so hot either.  This season, both of them were happy-go-lucky to climb up the stake pyramid.  (I have yet to get any flowers from the morning glories, though.  What's up with that?)  I planted a tomato plant what I imagined to be a decent distance away, but if that isn't a teepee of crazy, tangled up, tomato-pea-flower-crazy, I don't know what is.
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But hey, produce!

Carrots and beets: fun.  Zucchini: why are your leaves so ouchy?  Tomatoes: yes.

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Gerbera daisies?  Why, yes! 
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They're still blooming!

What'd you plant this year?  What do you get overwhelmed by?  Any tips?

 
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Love me some Will Tippin

One year ago: Double Rainbow, in which I tempt you to watch the funniest video.

Two years ago: Spiderman and the Orchard, in which I name names.

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