52: We Need Each Other

This year…what can we say? We’ve all had ups and downs this year, and this week we hear your losses of 2020. SPONSORED BY BLUBLOX discount code JOY www.joyandclaire.com email: [email protected] instagram: joyandclaire_ Audio Length: 53:37 minutes  Joy: Hey guys. This is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: And this is Joy & Claire. Claire: Hello. Joy: We’re in the second week of December already.  Claire: How? How? Joy: Time happens. Claire: I know, it’s amazing, every time. Every year happens the same. We were talking last night about our garden. For those of you who don’t know, I live in this very standard, kind of 1970’s suburban ranch-style home. We’re on a corner lot, and the corner chunk of grass we took out a couple of years ago and put in mounded row beds for gardens. Mounded bed is just literally what it sounds like, just a pile of dirt. We don’t have boxes out there. And it’s a pretty good amount of space. It’s about 30 feet wide by about maybe 80 or 100 feet deep. Over the last couple of years, the mounded beds have sort of spread. The dirt doesn’t stay in its little line, and then we bring in some new dirt. So we have weed cloth down, but the dirt that has escaped from the mounded beds has created its own new ecosystem. We have so much bindweed. Like, Colorado bindweed is so, so, so, so, so, so pervasive. Joy: What does that look like again? It’s hard to describe a plant but… Claire: It looks cute. Joy: Is it that light… is it kind of dainty looking? Because we have a shit ton of that too. Claire: Yes, dainty looking vine, small vine, and it has little white or light purple flowers.  Joy: Yes, we have that too, it drives me crazy. Claire: It almost looks like morning glory, if you’re like, “Oh, this is so beautiful.”  Joy: So pretty. Claire: It’s like, “Get out of my way!” And it will choke out. You can’t get rid of it. It’s impossible to get rid of. Joy: Impossible. Claire: It’s like the roots – and I know the name for this, it’s just not coming to me – where one plant has multiple root system point, multiple anchor points. And so you could pull up a 10-foot-long piece of bindweed and never get the main root.  Joy: It’s like the glitter of plant life. Claire: Oh, it’s the worst. Joy: Get rid of it. Claire: It will just take over. Anyway, the point of the story. We were thinking about, like, oh, we really wanted to put in raised beds because that will help contain everything and help us keep in front of the weeding a little bit. And we were like, well maybe we don’t have to worry about it until January. It’s like, oh my gosh, it’s mid-December practically. January is not this far-off land. We need to come up for a plan for this. What’s the plan for this? Joy: What is the plan for this? Claire: I don’t know.  Joy: How was your taco date?