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What Happens When You Get Carried Away

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Services for Real Estate Pros with Marte Cliff Copywriting

Gardening can be relaxing and fun - and it definitely leads to eating better food that's better for us.

Maybe that's why instead of thinking things through correctly, I planted too many rows for the space I had!

a copywriter's garden

The thing is, I knew better. But in my Springtime enthusiasm, I got carried away.

That nice wide "row" you see on the left... that's a row of carrots and beets hidden by those fat bean plants, which are - on the right hand side - hiding the lettuce and spinach!

And over there on the right... between the peas and the onions, there is barely room for me to crawl betwen the rows to pick weeds.

I took this picture to remind myself. And then we measured the space between the stakes at the end of the rows. It's all going in my file cabinet for reference next spring... so I don't get carried away and do the same thing over again.

The trouble is, I don't know what to leave out. So I think maybe the garden needs to get bigger.

Sounds like a job for my husband, don't you think?

Comments (12)

Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

Marte, that is quite the garden, I only managed to get about six tomato plants in action this summer

Aug 29, 2010 11:57 AM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

Marte, that is quite the garden, I only managed to get about six tomato plants in action this summer

Aug 29, 2010 11:58 AM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

Marte, that is quite the garden, I only managed to get about six tomato plants in action this summer

Aug 29, 2010 11:58 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

I got a little carried away with tomatoes too... have 14 plants in 5 gallon buckets sitting between the house and the garage. The idea was to have them where we could move them inside when nights start to be frosty.

Unfortunately, every now and then we get a windstorm that tips some of them over... Still getting lots of tomatoes, though. I will likely have canning to do before long.

Have to be honest - my husband does help with this project.

Aug 29, 2010 12:07 PM
John Mulkey
TheHousingGuru.com - Waleska, GA
Housing Guru

Marte - I'd love to have space for a garden, but I'd have to give up several large trees.  I have to settle for a few tomato plants. 

Aug 29, 2010 12:49 PM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Tomatoes are wonderful... the home grown variety taste SO much better than the "store-bought" kind.

I'm fortunate to live on 20 acres... so lots of space for whatever I want to do.

Aug 29, 2010 01:51 PM
Lynda Eisenmann
Preferred Home Brokers - Brea, CA
Broker Associate ,CRS,GRI,SRES, Brea,CA, Orange Co

Hi Marte,

Wow, I think it actually good great, like you're really producing a lot. Good for you, I miss my own smaller garden, I've let too many other things get in the way the past few years.

Keep up the great work, I bet your friends and neighbors love it!

Aug 29, 2010 03:34 PM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Yes, one of my neighbors loves it. He stops by now and then just to eat tomatoes from the vine. My other neighbor however, is a problem. She wants to give me her garden produce!

She's a wonderful lady, and she's had a stroke so can't quite remember that we have a garden too. So I just say thank you and take what she offers. Sometimes I help her with the overflow by taking it to the local food bank.

The years I sold real estate I got away from gardening... not enough hours in the day. Now that I write instead, I can do my "real work" at night... so get to garden.

Aug 29, 2010 03:42 PM
Carra Riley & Declan Kenyon
Brokers Guild Cherry Creek Ltd - Westminster, CO
Helping people Transition at all ages!

Marte ~  I love to garden... the growing season is so short in Williams, AZ I can't have what you have.. so my tomatoes and green peppers are in big planters on the south side of the house! Good lesson in more ways that one.. when planting the seeds in a garden there has to be room as they will grow.. when sowing new client seeds.. know they will grow and be sure you have room for them :)  mmmm reaching but something might be there!

Aug 30, 2010 05:39 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

Wow Carra - I would never have thought the growing season could be shorter in Arizona than in North Idaho. I whine about that all the time - can't grow corn except the midget variety, and only a couple times in my life have I managed to get squash ripe before it froze. (I still try... goofy!)

I start tomatoes and peppers in the house - usually too soon and end up with a huge job trying to move them outside. My sun room looked like a muddy jungle room by May this year.

I don't think you were reaching... You do need to sow those client seeds and make sue have room for them so that you're able to properly "feed and water" each them.

Aug 30, 2010 06:38 AM
Carra Riley & Declan Kenyon
Brokers Guild Cherry Creek Ltd - Westminster, CO
Helping people Transition at all ages!

Marte ~  you connected those dots perfectly!  I agree.. I live at 6800 ft. in Williams.. so it is high desert!  growing season is really June to Sept. 1st.. or so.. short!  It is 57 here today.. wind is blowing.. seems like fall or winter is coming :(  hopefullly we will have an warm spell after this!

Aug 30, 2010 07:54 AM
Marte Cliff
Marte Cliff Copywriting - Priest River, ID
Your real estate writer

So, your altitude is higher than ours - by more than double. We can usually be safe from frost by June - not always. And usually we can get toward the end of September before it comes again. But this year I'm not so sure. 40 degrees the last several nights, and only into the 60's in the daytime.

Somehow, summer flashed by without me seeing much of it. I think I put on shorts twice... when I decided to work on weeding instead of writing a couple of times.

I too hope for a warm September... but right now the forecast doesn't look promising.

Aug 30, 2010 08:16 AM