Spinach actually grows nicer for me in the Fall than in the Spring. I was wondering last week: why hadn’t I grown any last Fall?
This week as I was trying to get ready to start school and/or procrastinating on getting ready to start school (cleaning out closets, bringing outgrown/not their color hand me downs to the Salvation Army, writing schedules for their subjects, organizing the coming co-op, Sunday School and Lego classes I’ll be teaching) I realized why I hadn’t gotten any spinach, lettuce or carrots planted last August. I must have been either preparing to start up homeschool, or procrastinating on starting up homeschool.
We planted spinach, carrots, lettuce and Swiss chard yesterday, pulled lots of impressive purselane (didn’t eat it though, I’m the only one who likes it) and rag weed as high as M. I kept telling myself that this was science. I felt guilty that we weren’t "doing school." which is why I keep telling myself we are going to switch to year round schooling, so I don’t have the guilt of starting or not starting.
Well, this year we did plant the veggies, maybe next year we will school year round.