On this Valentine’s day I have received not as much as a dandelion from my husband! Then again, nor have I sent him anything, so I guess that makes it fair enough, especially since we really don’t give a d*** about this date. However, to all of you who do celebrate Valentine’s, please receive my best wishes for a lovely day with or without romance.
Anyway, as the title of this post indicates, purchases have been made! Seeds!!! Though only one of the packets was actually flower seeds (stocks); the rest were radishes, kohlrabi and kale, since I need some brassicas to fill the beds where I had beans and peas last year. And kale is pretty, isn’t it? Perhaps not as showy as flowers, but it has a lovely texture to its curled leaves.
(And since the slugs didn’t attack my radishes last year I’m hoping they’ll also leave the kohlrabi and kale alone, though this might be wishful thinking. I’d much rather have my kale eaten by butterfly larvae than by slugs!)
It must be difficult being so far away from each other. I hope my photograph brings a touch of sweetness and a smile to his face this Valentine’s Day.
Good luck for a bumper crop of kohlrabi and kale!
I believe his reponse was “you’re silly!”, which was more or less what I was hoping for. 😉
As for the crop, time will tell… And if it doesn’t get eaten by slugs I shall have to work out what to do with the kohlrabi; I’ve never cooked with it before, but Ill cross that bridge when I get to it.
Thx for the good wishes…we do celebrate but with a small gift and card…wishing you a wonderful garden harvest this year
It’s important to celebrate a relationship, and I guess Valentine’s can be a handy reminder of this. We tend to generally just celebrate when we’re actually together, due to the long-distance malarkey, but thankfully that’ll be over come June 1st!
I received the full set of my favourite childhood book that in fact I blogged about several days earlier. It was lovely and much better than any flowers. I get quite excited about seed buying. So much hope and promise in those little packets of seeds. Have you tried Red Russian Kale, it’s very pretty and is nice when picked young in salads?
Books can be such romantic presents when the giver gets it JUST right… I can still remember when my husband gave me a copy of a 1953 PhD thesis about building administration during the Absolutism in Denmark, with a special focus on municipal buildings. Only somebody who knows me would ever think that might be a romantic present, and it was!
As for Red Russian Kale? Oh, you TEMPTRESS!!! But no, it’s the standard European curly kale, and actually I’m quite happy with that. I have some great recipes for it and generally love the taste, so it’s all good. (And those curly green leaves are so pretty once the rest of the garden fades to brown.)
My husband and I are not fans of Valentine’s Day, and so find it all the more embarrassing that we finally agreeed to marry on 14th feb *cough* years ago… We started talking the previous day, but talked past midnight, and didn’t realise our error until it was too late… So no cards for us, but always a wry smile at being caught out.
Well, if February 14th is just another day in the year, maybe you oughtn’t be more embarrassed than if the decision had been made on August 28th? 😉
You make an excellent point, I think it is because in the early days when people asked they thought we had made a conscious decision to “get engaged” on Valentine’s Day, which was anathema to us. Think we’ll just settle for the wry amusement it delivers each year, and the fact that at least we don’t regret the decision!
My husband and I joke about the fact that we both proposed. (We got engaged, called off the wedding and relationship, got back together again and got engaged AND married.)
And hooray for not regretting the decision!