water my plants more often

I’m very very sorry to say that I’m just awful at this. My parents can keep a nice pointsetta from Christmas alive to see multiple other Chistmases. Mine are already dead, and I thought I was being such a good waterer. (I guess the leaving for a week when it was pretty cold didn’t help) Then I brought a nice rosemary plant home from work with hopes of planting it outside once the ground warmed up a little. I thought that rosemary would grow no matter what, and I thought I watered it. But, alas, it only stayed alive for about a month.

i got the blank look when I told her i had actually almost killed a snake plant for lack of water. she says they don’t like water much but i tell her that four or five stalks are completely dried up and i get the “i’ve never heard of such face.” i bought two more plants that she says “you can’t kill.” wish me luck

This is a purple shamrock; I’ve changed its location, and I’m hoping that the corm it grows from will produce some new shoots. I’ve dehydrated that one to completion before and it grew again, it’s resilient – but maybe Melonie really did it in, I don’t know.

My umbrella plant in the front window has produced five new leaves.

The japanese maple flowered.

The basil plant I brought indoors – one of the two stalks has revitalized. The other, I don’t think so.

The viney thing is producing new leaves. The african violet has new leaves, too. It’s far from perfect but it has a chance.

The sagittarius plant is going like gangbusters. The spikey plant is the same, still living anyway.

The snake plants are still splayed, but they look full and happy nonetheless.

The ficus is still surviving. It’s a strange one, it has a problem. And you can only repot it at a certain time of the year, and that would not be now, though I don’t know when it is.

I’ve put a weekly reminder on my calendar to do this, in conjunction with checking my weekly horoscope.

And I was a botany student. Snarf. Guess I’m okay if the sun and rain look after them.

My parents scolded me about the houseplants and watered them all this weekend. The snake plants totally perked up. So, I have put a reminder on to do it every other day. I have to water:

1. upstairs snake plant
2. downstairs snake plant
3. japanese maple
4. umbrella plant
5. african violet
6. jade plant
7. spikey plant
8. sagittarius plant
9. ficus tree
10. purple shamrock
11. viney thing

This goal is simple because all my others are too damn complex. And I’m a goal junkie so of course I have to have more than 40 hits, dammit.

This is another 30 day goal. In 30 days, I report how much better the plants look, I feel all smug and satisfied, and a new habit is formed. That’s the plan.

It’s nice to see the products of a little extra h20.

Watered twice today. I’m on a roooooll.

Here are the lovely herbs. Rosemary, basil, oregano, lemon balm, chocolate mint, cilantro, and some other stuff I think. I’ve got tomatoes, cucumber, and jalepenos growing on the other side of my small porch. My porch is metal which gets super hot which means my plants dry out quickly. So note to self: water my plants more often.

He’s gone to a better place. It was a mutual agreement.

so I have neglected my 2 plants for a while and yet they seem to be living! I don’t get it. Not that I intentionally am trying to kill them, but they sit on my window that is not very accesible – and It’s the only window where they can get proper sunlight.
O.K. One is a cactus – given to me by one of my students after mentioning to my grade 2’s that I don’t have a green thumb. I thought it was hilarious.
Well, now that it’s on my mind, I’m going to check up on my plants…toodles