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I am so tired. But buzzed nonetheless. I hauled plants and water and dirt around all day, and it's night now, and when I look at all the things still left to do, I don't know whether to go dig in the dark or just stagger in circles. Enough, here are some pictures of everything.
Hey, look at that. See that plant in the big, crummy pink pot? That's my pepper, the one that I brought in last fall, which came down with bugs and almost died, and has now rfecovered. I am so proud of it.
Just behind it is a small lime/lemon/I forget tree, which also wintered over indoors. Man, those things are tough.
This is my latest but not wackiest invention; a tomato cage swathed in Saran Wrap, making it a mini-greenhouse. Originally I was going to cover the cage in tailored, sewn clear vinyl, polished solution that I never got around to doing, because that would involve work. The other day I decided to give this a shot. I was thinking that covering wires with flimsy, sticky film would be either frustrating or useless or both, but it worked fine!
A strawberry plant, which don't need no stinking greenhouse to bloom in this weather. I like the middle spike, sort of like a flowered flagpole.
A thriving catnip plant! Not that it's hard to grow a catnip plant once it's established. In fact, this one will spread into a shrub if I'm not careful. Cats love fresh catnip and with this, I won't need to buy any more.
The first plants are going into their containers. Here are a bell pepper--seeded this February--and two tiny Sakata Sweet melon seedlings, which I actually planted kind of a long time ago. They were slow to sprout, and slow to grow. This container is a temporary home for them. I just thought they'd like some real sunlight.
Here are a couple of my Manzano peppers. This is my first year for these. They were also seeded in February, and have been the most obliging, trouble-free things that anyone could want. Zoom, they just grow. This one is only about five inches high, but I'm told that the plants are small even in adult form. They are also fuzzy, and have a funky, rank smell when the leaves are brushed. They kind of smell like a vegetable ferret. It's weird.
A bed of spinach, which has the long rabbit-ear leaves, and bunching onions, which are the ones that look like green bobby pins stuck into the dirt.
Oh hey, one of my clove trees. I haven't posted about them in a year but they've been growing along quietly. Four of them died, sad to say, and I have this to report for anyone who wants to grow them: clove trees like distilled water, high humidity, and shelter from strong, hot light. Unfortunately our dry, blast furnace summer did a few of them in. And I don't know what's in our tap water but they don't like that, either.
Ah, the elusive Vine Peach! Depending on who you ask, these either taste like heaven itself, or just a sweet mushy cucumber. The people who call them delicious always seem to be selling the seeds. Wonder why that is? Well, here are two young Vine Peach plants, and I will coddle them to maturity. We'll see what they taste like.
And here is another container with two Spacemaster cucumbers in it. They are about two inches tall and three inches across. These were planted at the same time as the Sakata melons, and if you compare their relative size, you can see that the melons are way, way behind. That's probably my fault, but I'm not sure why. It could be anything--maybe they don't like the soil, or I overwatered them, or they need more light and heat to really get going. That's why I planted those two in with the pepper plant. I thought they could use a change of scenery, since they just weren't thriving where they were.
I also have...oh god, scads of tomatoes and gerbera and zinnias and watermelons and kiwano, which are those spiny yellow oval things you see in the Weird Fruit section at the grocery. And a sore digging hand, and sunburn.
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Pic not mine! I've never grown these before. Just playing around. They look neat.
And that's enough Nature for awhile, I'm off to play some Unreal Tournament. I haven't played in over a year and boy am I ever rusty. My first spawn ever, I ran straight into the toxic green stuff.
Hey, look at that. See that plant in the big, crummy pink pot? That's my pepper, the one that I brought in last fall, which came down with bugs and almost died, and has now rfecovered. I am so proud of it.
Just behind it is a small lime/lemon/I forget tree, which also wintered over indoors. Man, those things are tough.
This is my latest but not wackiest invention; a tomato cage swathed in Saran Wrap, making it a mini-greenhouse. Originally I was going to cover the cage in tailored, sewn clear vinyl, polished solution that I never got around to doing, because that would involve work. The other day I decided to give this a shot. I was thinking that covering wires with flimsy, sticky film would be either frustrating or useless or both, but it worked fine!
A strawberry plant, which don't need no stinking greenhouse to bloom in this weather. I like the middle spike, sort of like a flowered flagpole.
A thriving catnip plant! Not that it's hard to grow a catnip plant once it's established. In fact, this one will spread into a shrub if I'm not careful. Cats love fresh catnip and with this, I won't need to buy any more.
The first plants are going into their containers. Here are a bell pepper--seeded this February--and two tiny Sakata Sweet melon seedlings, which I actually planted kind of a long time ago. They were slow to sprout, and slow to grow. This container is a temporary home for them. I just thought they'd like some real sunlight.
Here are a couple of my Manzano peppers. This is my first year for these. They were also seeded in February, and have been the most obliging, trouble-free things that anyone could want. Zoom, they just grow. This one is only about five inches high, but I'm told that the plants are small even in adult form. They are also fuzzy, and have a funky, rank smell when the leaves are brushed. They kind of smell like a vegetable ferret. It's weird.
A bed of spinach, which has the long rabbit-ear leaves, and bunching onions, which are the ones that look like green bobby pins stuck into the dirt.
Oh hey, one of my clove trees. I haven't posted about them in a year but they've been growing along quietly. Four of them died, sad to say, and I have this to report for anyone who wants to grow them: clove trees like distilled water, high humidity, and shelter from strong, hot light. Unfortunately our dry, blast furnace summer did a few of them in. And I don't know what's in our tap water but they don't like that, either.
Ah, the elusive Vine Peach! Depending on who you ask, these either taste like heaven itself, or just a sweet mushy cucumber. The people who call them delicious always seem to be selling the seeds. Wonder why that is? Well, here are two young Vine Peach plants, and I will coddle them to maturity. We'll see what they taste like.
And here is another container with two Spacemaster cucumbers in it. They are about two inches tall and three inches across. These were planted at the same time as the Sakata melons, and if you compare their relative size, you can see that the melons are way, way behind. That's probably my fault, but I'm not sure why. It could be anything--maybe they don't like the soil, or I overwatered them, or they need more light and heat to really get going. That's why I planted those two in with the pepper plant. I thought they could use a change of scenery, since they just weren't thriving where they were.
I also have...oh god, scads of tomatoes and gerbera and zinnias and watermelons and kiwano, which are those spiny yellow oval things you see in the Weird Fruit section at the grocery. And a sore digging hand, and sunburn.
Pic not mine! I've never grown these before. Just playing around. They look neat.
And that's enough Nature for awhile, I'm off to play some Unreal Tournament. I haven't played in over a year and boy am I ever rusty. My first spawn ever, I ran straight into the toxic green stuff.
Saran Greenhouse
-- plantsondeck