Written for dVerse Poets Pub: https://dversepoets.com/2020/08/10/how-does-your-garden-grow-dverse-quadrille/
My Garden
It isn’t just for gnome men
or even just for gnome girls
it’s more for things like cucumbers
with tendrils and their curls.
It is a place of wonder,
of feasting, and for fun.
A garden is a utopia
when the growing is done.
©2020 CBialczak Poetry
Stine Writing 
Just lovely. The courgettes look like they’re doing really well.
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I’m sorry but what is a courgette?
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The plant in the photo
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Ah, those are actually cucumbers. Courgette here is called Zucchini. I didn’t grow that this year since I was trying a new planter.
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Ah, my mistake. Not used to seeing cucumbers out of a greenhouse
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One of the things I love about the community here on WordPress, such diversity!
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My daughter had a ton of cucumbers this year, too. I like your description of tendrils and curls.
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Thank you. It is amazing how although they are not living creatures (in a humany sense) they still know how to go out and find something to attach to. How do they know where to go?
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Cucumber sprawl! Ours are just now beginning to be large enough to harvest and it’s fun to go seeking for them among those big leaves (if you wear good gloves) I, too, liked the gnome intro.
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Thank you! I think my cucumbers are getting done producing. There are still a few, not totally done, but not four or five a day!
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Adore the positivity of this piece. The rhymes are lilting!
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Thank you
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Beautiful and fun to read.
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Thank you
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I like that you introduced the idea of the garden as a place to cultivate food. Flowers are beautiful, but home-grown food is the best! Of course, I would never attempt to grow anything myself, given my track record with flowers…
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I think vegetables are a bit easier, in a way. They like to keep growing bigger even when ignored, where as flowers die…Not true of everything. One year I didn’t pick cucumbers for a while. When I went out they were the size of large zucchini! At least a foot long and probably 6 inch diameter! They were terribly sour though.
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The plants look wonderful! I wish I could grow a small garden. No time, and too hot 🙁
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It has been so hot where I put the beds. I have to go out and water the plants mid day just to keep them alive.
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I think many of us are just waiting for rain!
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A garden is a place one can get lost in, a great place to meditate.
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Bananas have a lot of potassium which is beneficial to plants and humans.
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Oh the gnomes were a witty way to start the poem. I am in awe at the cucumber plant as mine are extremely sad.
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It’s all about plant food. I have to be better now that my tomatoes are coming in because without the right vitamins they rot on their bottoms. One of the very best plant foods is banana water. Take a banana peel. Chop it up and put it in a bowl of water, I use 4 cups of water. Cover the bowl and leave it on your counter for at least 36 hours. Strain the peels out and then use that water to feed your plants. Bananas are supposed to have the most beneficial vitamins for all plants. My indoor plants love it.
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This made me chuckle at the end! Yes – utopia when the garden season is over! I’m getting sick of squash. At least they are smaller than the zucchini from last year!! Your cucumber looks amazingly healthy.
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I used to grow squash but I can’t remember when or why but I can’t eat it anymore. It makes me gag just thinking about it! I guess in soup it would be okay. They do take a lot of room. I don’t know how long my cukes will last. A lot of the leaves are starting to die. I have pickled a lot of them because we can’t eat them fast enough.
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beautiful poem and it’s also a sanctuary 🙂
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I am so happy with where I place the planters. I used to have them farther out in the yard and there would be so many pests. This way they are protected from a lot of the gross ones, like slugs.
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good for you Christine, well done!
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Those last 2 lines sum it up! I’m glad my brother has the patience and skill for all the growing, because I sure don’t. 🙂
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