garden

Of all the seeds I started a couple of weeks ago, the ones doing the best are the trailing Nasturtiums, which have these wonderful leaves that look like green potter’s wheels, and the flowers are a soft but warm pink that look good enough to eat.

At some point, I’ll have to figure out how to display them to their best advantage. I had thought to add them to the hanging baskets that have the moss rose, but they’ve just exploded and there isn’t room. Maybe we could hang one of those flush-against-a-wall planters for a few months? I’m not sure how that will go over, but it’s what I would do, if it were totally up to me.

I planted tons of flower seeds over a month ago and got a new ground flag plus added an accent light and a brick border to my garden, but the flowers aren’t growing yet. I almost had a purple one, but it died, because I haven’t been watering it like I should. I guess you could say I’ve neglected it a bit.
My Spider Plant is still alive and growing. I think I’m about ready to add a 2nd small house plant!
(refer to last blog)

Thanx,
Curt

I’ve started about four different kinds of thyme to plant along a barren fenceline, and I also started trailing nasturtium for containers, plus more lobelia, which is a really lovely annual that should help fill out the front beds a little. I know I’m starting them late, but it gets so hot here, that if I keep many of these things on the porch (which faces east), we could have them growing and blooming well into the fall. That, of course, depends on the weather (especially August, which tends to be brutal here).

So, it’s a common quandry: I don’t have my own place to garden. It’s alright. I can keep reading, planning, making small container gardens that don’t require much space, so that when I do have my own yard, I can just dive right in.

There are many tangential interests that work in with this. I would like to learn to dye my own spun yarn for custom knits, and I would also like to branch out more in terms of herbalism for medicine and cooking.

Learn and do. Learn and do.

After a hurried visit to the farmer’s market with my mother and grandmother, I catapulted home to hastily transplant my sprouts under the nerve-racking supervision of elder generations. Days of nursing, roller-coaster temperatures, and stinging winds left me with limp, yellow nubs of plants. I threw them out (to my mother’s horror) and took a whole day, alone, to peruse the local garden center, thoughtfully select my babies and plant lazily but carefully in the side-yard. They are doing much better this time around. I’m coming to realize that gardening is a personal journey which should be taken at one’s own pace. It’s not rocket science, it’s an investment. Make it your own.

for the coming week (for now!) sooooooooo I MUST TAKE CARE OF MY POOR NEGLECTED GARDEN. The bits that aren’t lost under chopped down tree that is.Must clean the bathroom first though.

We moved about two years ago. I’ve planted a lot of trees, shrubs and a bed of roses, grasses and such. But we just haven’t gotten around to doing our big, formal garden yet. We had a pretty awesome garden at the last house and I miss it. Hoping to put up a fence this spring and get started on the beds. Need to try and spend a couple of hours 2 or 3 days a week out there this year.

January 2008, I moved into housing (this being my “first” own place at 23 years old at the time – now 24). They supply us with a “very small” AREA outside by our front porch to plant whatever we want (well, as long as its legal of course, hehe). Anyway, my first year was decent for NOT EVER really getting “into” gardening before in my life. I had some magnificent sunflowers in which I had to end up cutting down along with tons of different colored flowers (keep in mind, I’m just beginning, so I don’t my flowers. I don’t even know what I planted. They were seeds.) I had some red and white flowers around my flag that’s stuck in the ground, and the area came with some white spongie “looking” plant that stays there all year round. It grew some little yellow flowers on it during the summer. (maybe somebody can fill me in on what that is???) I’ll have to start sooner next year and take some pictures, because in 2008, I didn’t have much blooming until mid to late summer and then everything was dead – BUT IT WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED, and I look forward to this year!
Thanx for this awsome NEW HOBBY!
Tru
P.S. By the way, I’ve also kept a green spider plant alive in my apt. for the past 6 mos. It hasn’t grown “much” though. Pretty good for never doing this kindof thing before though. Wish me Luck! Thanx!

i always have the best intentions, and then by late summer i see, to lose the time to water the plants when it gets super hot. :(
i also need to think with more of a ladscaper’s brain- i add a plant here and a bush there- all look good together, but not impressive. just a bunch of onesies. i think i should work in greater quantities for next year.

If you’re on an organic diet, you can just eat out of your garden during the summer.

A very good idea for a project to do with your mom, too