July Garden Update: What I Would and Wouldn’t Do Again
I am trying something a little different this week. I am always looking for ways to reduce my screen time and blue light exposure, typing on the computer racks up the exposure for me. I love to write and try new journals and planners out in hopes to write more and organize my thoughts and life. Notebooks/planners have piled up, so many mostly empty!
I began searching if there was a computer that had no backlight. That led me to the discovery of E-ink Tablets. They are newer and not mass manufactured so they are a bit pricey and definitely still in the early design phases. As soon as I knew they existed, I knew I wanted to invest.
Voting with dollars is a huge belief for me, so getting in early on e-ink tablets felt like a worthy investment for my health and also to affirm the direction these companies are taking. Reducing paper consumption, personal clutter, and harmful blue light exposure while increasing my ability to write and organize sold me.
So here are two pages from my garden notebook on my Supernote A5 X.
(Check out the E-ink device here)
Bell peppers, okra, frequent mini-munch cucumbers, picklers, beets, loads of zinnias, parsley, and basil rolling in from the greenhouse! Still waiting on tomatoes of all three varieties, eggplants, snacking peppers, and green beans(planted late). Kale is now sparse and I am having a hard time getting lettuce to germinate so we are in a greens slump currently. My mom has lettuce and basil starts inside germinating for us under her lights for a peak of summer lettuce and basil wave! She may have started cilantro too.
Making notes like this, even if never referred to again, will help commit these findings to my brain for next year. The title hatched over in lines is like that because I have it set in my notebook table of contents. I can thumb through these titles this winter to jog my memory as I plan and order seeds for my garden next year!
Tell me, what would or wouldn’t you do again with your garden and why?
