I'd been thinking of growing some vegetables this year. When we moved in, I got the landlord's approval to get some outside planters, put them on a bit of pavement behind the house, and grow cucumbers or tomatoes.
That's looking less feasible, between the social distancing and not having a car, but I think we could put in the kitchen window herb garden![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude and I were also talking about. I need either one of those herb garden kits I'm seeing online, or pots (probably), soil, and of course the seeds. Does anyone have recommendations, either "get this" or "don't get that"?
That probably means mail ordering, under the circumstances, though there's a hardware store in walking distance, once I'm done with this round of self-distancing. (In a normal year, I'd be calling Pemberton Farms and asking do they carry the things I need, but it takes two buses to get there from here.) Thus, I'm also looking for suggestions about places to order from, either by mail or a store that will deliver locally, where "locally" is Belmont, Mass. Not Amazon, not while the workers are on strike/talking about a strike.
One thing about the pandemic is that not having a car, nor even a driver's license, is a problem rather than an inconvenience. Having carefully found an apartment in easy walking distance of a good bus line (what the MBTA call a "key bus route") doesn't help much when we're being told to avoid taking buses if possible.
That's looking less feasible, between the social distancing and not having a car, but I think we could put in the kitchen window herb garden
cattitude and I were also talking about. I need either one of those herb garden kits I'm seeing online, or pots (probably), soil, and of course the seeds. Does anyone have recommendations, either "get this" or "don't get that"?That probably means mail ordering, under the circumstances, though there's a hardware store in walking distance, once I'm done with this round of self-distancing. (In a normal year, I'd be calling Pemberton Farms and asking do they carry the things I need, but it takes two buses to get there from here.) Thus, I'm also looking for suggestions about places to order from, either by mail or a store that will deliver locally, where "locally" is Belmont, Mass. Not Amazon, not while the workers are on strike/talking about a strike.
One thing about the pandemic is that not having a car, nor even a driver's license, is a problem rather than an inconvenience. Having carefully found an apartment in easy walking distance of a good bus line (what the MBTA call a "key bus route") doesn't help much when we're being told to avoid taking buses if possible.
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