More Complicated Than You'd Think....

We have been doing a lot of work in the garden recently, due to the fact that between the Walkers and ourselves, we've started a market-gardening venture on our land. We'll post more fully about that at some point! :) Anyway, today we spent all day out in the garden, and my job was to finish twining the peas on the trellis and to spray all the peas, the onions, the radishes, and the turnips with this:

Okay....so maybe not literally. More like this:

Fish Emulsion smells just like a fishing tackle box with rotting fish inside. :) But it's amazing for the garden, so I devoted myself to spraying all the plants with it. I ended up drenched and smelling like chum myself. :P So after my job was done I ran inside, scrubbed myself in the shower and, still smelling like a fish, (though a clean fish) I am writing this blog post. :)

The main point of this post was to show you something I have learned this year in the garden. Pay close attention...

This is earth

This is soil

This is dirt.

Got it? If you didn't, go back and read that part over again.

Now, you may be wondering why I posted three of the same photos. Let me explain. If you are Mary Lennox of The Secret Garden,  or perhaps another British person, that handful of sediment is earth. 

"Might I have a bit of earth?" :)

Take the same handful of sediment and if you are an educated person filling trays to do something like this...

Chances are....it's soil.

And if that self-same sediment falls on the floor and you have to sweep it up... in the space of three seconds you have suddenly become acquainted with the last persona of the sediment: 

Dirt.

Now do you have it? :) You'll know you're a real gardener when you can simply take stock of your surroundings and be able to tell just which that handful of sediment is. ;) ~Rachel