04-03-2020, 01:20 PM
Sorry if this is a bit off-off-topic, but I've been having trouble keeping up with the whirlwind of best practices and what you can and cannot do under the coronavirus directives. It sounds like masks are now being recommended by top health officials -- after earlier calling people idiots for wanting to wear them. As for venturing out for exercise versus sheltering in place, or having a 5-mile limit, that's been fuzzy of late.
Fortunately, I did find a reasonably recent and informative site that, among other things says, "In general, you can go on walks for errands and recreation while practicing social distancing -- and you can walk your dog and garden."
So yesterday I took my garden for walk.
Not my whole garden. Just a patch of mustard, spinach and kale seedlings. I carefully dug them up, along with a few inches of topsoil, and put them in our wheelbarrow. Then I wheeled it out through the side-gate onto the sidewalk and set off.
I got some looks, mind you. And in hindsight maybe I should have worn a mask. But we don't have any right now, and I would have had to make one and didn't want to take the time. Gardens are best walked in the daylight, I strongly believe.
It was a nice mile and a half walk, though the wheelbarrow wan't very easy to push, and with my hips and erratic trajectory it was hard to keep the wheelbarrow level. So despite all the sun and air the plants were looking a bit wilted by the time I got back -- seasick from all the weaving, no doubt, if not shellshocked by the jumpy overinflated tire. Anyway, the seedlings are back in the ground now, and I think they'll survive, though I doubt I'll be taking them on many more walks.
Well, maybe the dogweed. I might give that a try.
Fortunately, I did find a reasonably recent and informative site that, among other things says, "In general, you can go on walks for errands and recreation while practicing social distancing -- and you can walk your dog and garden."
So yesterday I took my garden for walk.
Not my whole garden. Just a patch of mustard, spinach and kale seedlings. I carefully dug them up, along with a few inches of topsoil, and put them in our wheelbarrow. Then I wheeled it out through the side-gate onto the sidewalk and set off.
I got some looks, mind you. And in hindsight maybe I should have worn a mask. But we don't have any right now, and I would have had to make one and didn't want to take the time. Gardens are best walked in the daylight, I strongly believe.
It was a nice mile and a half walk, though the wheelbarrow wan't very easy to push, and with my hips and erratic trajectory it was hard to keep the wheelbarrow level. So despite all the sun and air the plants were looking a bit wilted by the time I got back -- seasick from all the weaving, no doubt, if not shellshocked by the jumpy overinflated tire. Anyway, the seedlings are back in the ground now, and I think they'll survive, though I doubt I'll be taking them on many more walks.
Well, maybe the dogweed. I might give that a try.
I'm nobody's pony.