Black soil, white carpet
May 26th 2011 05:58
There is a strip of dry dusty dirt in front of my raised garden bed that I call the dead zone. I've tried numerous flowers there. They all die within a week or two. My rabbi's husband (he of the green thumb) tells me it's probably my soil. The fact that even weeds don't come up despite daily watering with automatic sprinklers is a sign that something's wrong, he says.
I'm far too lazy and unsophisticated to take a soil sample to a lab for analysis, but I did grab a free sample bag of rich black compost at a festival not long ago. I thought I'd work it into a spot where a lonely lily is fighting for survival to see if it makes a difference.
Jake had other plans. He decided the black compost needed to be worked into the white carpet of his bedroom, instead. When I went to read him a bedtime story last night, I discovered a big black spot on the carpet where he was evidently making mud pies. I made him get on his hands and knees and scrub the carpet with carpet cleaner and a rag, but the spot merely faded from black to gray.
5-26-2011
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