Garden Fairies Provide Updates

Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and we have been what some might call “chomping at the bit” to provide an update or two because if we didn’t, how would you good readers find out what is really going on around here?

Obviously, the answer is, you wouldn’t!

Let us proceed.

First, let us just say that the mole is still here, still digging, and still evading the traps that Carol is setting to catch it.

Is said mole getting assistance from certain garden fairies to help him avoid those traps?

We are garden fairies, and we will not divulge such secret information but Seedy and Soddy have done a marvelous job of… wait a minute… we are not going to be tricked into revealing how it is that the mole is avoiding those traps.

Just know that he is and we will continue to assist him in any way we can.

Secondly, if you read Carol’s weekly newsletter, which for the record, she will not allow us to contribute to at all, (harumph), you know that she has decided to add an herb garden in The Vegetable Garden Cathedral. She is under the illusion that she chose that location for the herb garden on her own without consulting a single garden fairy, but the real story is that once we got wind of her herb garden idea…

How did we get wind of it, you are wondering?

How we got wind of it was by seeing Carol bring in nine, yes NINE, varieties of thyme and three varieties, now four varieties, of oregano, potted up in little pots, waiting to be planted somewhere. That’s how we got wind of it. That and all those herb books we caught her reading. Anyway, once we knew she was adding an herb garden, we put together a committee, led by Sweetpea MorningGlory. After several rather raucous and spirited meetings, with considerable input from all the garden fairies and agreement from Granny ‘Gus’ McGarden, who, as you fine readers know, is in charge of The Vegetable Garden Cathedral, we decided the new herb garden should go in…

The Vegetable Garden Cathedral!

Then, Granny worked out that it should be in the front end of the two center beds because Carol had already added an arbor straddling those two beds so she could grow scarlet runner beans that would climb up the arbor.

How did we get Carol to choose the exact spot we wanted her to choose?

We are garden fairies! No way are we going to be enticed by any tricks like simple questions to share any secrets like that.

Anyway, the third thing we wanted to write about is that as of June 1, Carol has been retired from her career job for nine years, and so has been regularly and randomly showing up in the garden all through the week for those nine years. We are garden fairies, and let us just say that it has been an adjustment for us, but then we quickly learned that Carol is inherently lazy, so she isn’t out here in the garden every single minute of every single day, so we have a lot of time on our own.

Not as much time as before, but Seedy and Soddy, Honoria and Hortense, and Deema Mae Flowerweaver have adapted quite nicely. We all agree that, though we are doing most of the work around here, we can give Carol a tiny bit of credit, probably more than she deserves.

Anyway, we are garden fairies, and it has been a nice slow, cool spring overall, so if we do say so ourselves, all the flowers have lasted a little longer, all the plants have grown a little bigger, and everything has been quite green, but now it is time for us to turn our attention to summertime activities, which include but are not limited to, welcoming back all the lightning bugs.

We think they’ll show up soon!

And that is all we care to write about on this fine day. Rumor has it that Carol has decided to mow the lawn again, which means we need to move to our safe positions in the garden, which are mostly in The Vegetable Garden Cathedral, which we should now call “The Vegetable Garden Cathedral and Herbal Retreat House, “or just “Veggie Garden” when we are in a hurry.

That is fine by us. Carol sowed a lot of seeds in the Veggie Garden a week or so ago so now we need to work on getting them all germinated because Carol said until she sees seedlings, she can’t/won’t weed because she doesn’t want to disturb a sleeping seed just as it starts to wake up. So we’ll work on those seeds, not for Carol, but for Granny who hates a weedy garden bed.

And with that, we’ll conclude…

We are garden fairies! We’ll see you in the Veggie Garden

Submitted by:

Viola Sweetpea Maydreams, Chief Scribe and second in command in The Vegetable Garden Cathedral and Herbal Retreat House

P. S. One could rightfully debate whether or not the lawn really needs to be cut, again, but Carol mumbled something about it’s getting hotter, might have rain at the end of the week, better mow sooner rather than later, etc., but we really think she’s mow-crastinating. That’s what we call it when someone should be doing something else important in the garden, like weeding, trimming shrubs, finding homes for new trial perennial plants, but instead mows the lawn even though the lawn isn’t overgrown by any stretch of the imagination.

P. S.S. At the risk of this blog post being too long for email, we garden fairies would like to say it is not our fault that you got two emails in one week with blog posts from Carol. Just consider that this one is from us garden fairies and then it is like you got one from Carol, one from us. Besides, it wouldn’t be two days in a row if she had done a better job on that email subscriber list clean-up! And if you didn’t get this but thought you should have, well, how will you know? I guess if you are reading this on the website and didn’t get an email and thought you were subscribed, you can try to resubscribe again. We are garden fairies.