Motivation!

[SueCT]

I was feeling a bit better and getting stir crazy so I wen out an put a new netting over the pond, and managed to get 8 cloves of garlic planted with a stick, lol. Its so late I don't know if it will even grow, but if I manage to get just 6 or 8 bulbs of decent size next year at least I won't need to buy more seed garlic. The ground was cold but not frozen and very moist so I didn't have worry about watering. Snow/sleet/freezing rain predicited overnight and tomorrow. At least the pond is safer for the remaining fish and all those water hyacinths I pulled out will need to cleaned up in spring. I can deal with spring clean up usually, it is the kind of thing I might get done on a random nice day when it is still too early do much of anything. Too much and I start getting tired and coughing, so back in to use my inhalers and relax. Bronchitis can take weeks to fully get over and I have asthma so it can take a bit longer. But I will be back to work on Weds. and if I need a nap when I get home, that is what I will do.

Anyone know if garlic can be grown in pots in the north? I am in zone 6a. I know the hard neck I have needs cold over winter, but not sure it needs that much, lol. I have some large pots that had tomatoes in them and I could plant a few more cloves when the weather clears if the soil isn't frozen, and maybe transplant it in the spring or just grown one less potted tomato next year if it looks like the garlic is doing well.

[DonDuck]

I believe I have motivational lethargy in late fall, early winter each year. I enjoy the cold winter weather because it gives me a reason to enjoy cabin fever without guilt for not accomplishing anything. If it is a temporary condition instead of the onset of old age, I hope a good book and a bottomless pot of coffee are the right medicine. I hope I don't over medicate and become addicted

[rxkeith]

wrong time of year for me to be motivated in the garden what with a couple feet of snow
covering it, snow falling on a daily basis a few inches each day along with the 8 to 12 inch dumper now and then, and temps that drop into the single digits.
i spent several hours outside shoveling a path to the wood pile before loading
up the enclosed porch with wood to burn, taking a break to get the dog out for a walk
and then blowing the driveway.
i'll start getting a seed order together in january. the hard time for me to get motivated
is march when seed starting begins. by then, snow is about 4 to 5 ft deep, and still
falling. temps are only slightly improved. gardening seems so far away.



keith

[DonDuck]

I belong to an old geezers club. The club doesn't really have a name. It only meets on irregular dates and times at various functions. We seem to start each meeting with two or three old guys standing around and opening the meeting with a negative political comment. The meeting grows as other old geezers arrive and the conversation advances to grand kids, great grand kids, golf, hunting; and fishing. The meeting is approaching closure when the conversation switches to recent medical procedures. I usually leave the meeting a little early because I am boringly healthy and have no procedures to report on. I may someday be the star of the show, but right now; I am happy just taking boring notes of the meeting.