There's a gun in my garden

I moved into a new apartment at the end of last summer and was thrilled to find a large raised garden plot outside, which no one was obviously tending to. Overgrown with smartweed, dandelions, grass, nightshade, and a mass of irises in the back, it definitely needed a human friend to look after it. Since this is a place that I'm hoping to live in for some time, I was beyond excited to put some work into improving and maintaining the plot.

When I arrived back in town at the end of August I did some preliminary planting (after getting rid of the weeds) just to see what conditions were like. Purple mustard was prolific. Cilantro grew successfully as well as a mound of zucchini, which sprouted three flowers before the season was out (not bad for a late planting and 59-cent seeds). Carrots and turnips did not perform well, but as I did not put a whole lot of work in yet, I was not concerned.

Today I had off, and decided to work the soil. First in order was a thorough run-through with the old cultivator. Some of the weeds had started to sprout up, and I wanted those root stocks out. As I was going through and getting rid of roots, rocks, and glass, I found....a gun. No, I'm not making that up, there was a gun half-buried in my soil. Who knows how long that was there for. Not wanting to know what the implications of touching it were, I removed it with the hand tool. As I was coming into the house to contact the appropriates, I said out loud to myself, "I can't believe there's a gun in my garden". I then realized how fitting a phrase that is for the average US citizen, or that of many individuals of the world. For there is a gun in the garden of our blissful, ignorant life here, and if we don't do something about it soon, we will be shot in the back.

Anyway, I was thinking of making both a political/esoteric blog for a while, and also something about the garden. I've never really had a blog before, so here's a good go to combine both. Yours here first folks, the only blog that combines greens and Gurdjieff, ponerology and petunias, Fulcanelli and fennel. At least, I hope it will do so.

I'm hoping to snag a camera from somebody to take some photos. In the meantime I will try to draw something on Illustrator.