So I don't know about you people, but I don't! I have a garden Snail!!! Who needs a stork when you have a snail? Its awesome. Mom bought it for me, along with a bunch of garden stuff for my faux garden. She said if I was going to have a garden it needs hanging things and spikes and stones and there's no reason why I shouldn't have them! So she took me first to Lowe's (never been to one before), to pick a nice blackwood mulch. Very nice stuff if I do say so myself! While there, she got me a beautiful boxwood basil plant. Let me tell you it smells AMAZING! Definately going to be aiding the candle making business. ^^ Then we went to Walmart to check their prices and procured some weed and feed so that the gnarly death plants won't regrow. AND THEN! we went to Menards to check the prices of hyacinths. This is also where we got Ant killer, because there's a large amount of them in the garden and well, we all know I don't like to be crawled on. In between all THAT! We went to the dollar store and got these amazing little garden sparklies which I can't WAIT to show off. I promise pictures of the middle process will be taken tomorrow. Before is before we tackled it, middle is cleaned but no flowers, and after is once all the plants come up!
I'm going to be working on the garden tomorrow morning, well more like noon, BUT gonna put in the stone works, sparklies, and ornaments. Also going to use the weed and feed, mulch and then plant the babies! Very exciting work for tomorrow. I can't wait. Just telling you now. I'm in a great mood.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Death and Life
Sadly both the first creates a bit of unhappiness for a garden. The cumin passed away T.T There's nothing I can do about that other than try try again I suppose, though I'm hoping that means I might be more successful.
On the other hand, during the sad excursions over the last week, mom saw fit to buy me the coolest present ever. A genovese basil plant. Its lush and beautiful. As you can see!
Its been a hectic week, but I'll replant those basils sometime this week into the large tulip shaped pot I got last year. I just hope they get full and happy. They smell amazing.
The only other sad thing that I'm going to mope about is the garden stork that I wanted. There are things recently that I keep looking at that I want for my fake garden. A garden stork, they look amazing, the ones at Farm and Fleet. But I would also like birdbath. It would be so neat to get to put things in a garden. I wish so badly that I could have a garden with little things to put in it. I just have to stop wanting things. Someday I'll have a garden and someday my guy and me will put whatever little things we want in it.
On the other hand, during the sad excursions over the last week, mom saw fit to buy me the coolest present ever. A genovese basil plant. Its lush and beautiful. As you can see!
Its been a hectic week, but I'll replant those basils sometime this week into the large tulip shaped pot I got last year. I just hope they get full and happy. They smell amazing.
The only other sad thing that I'm going to mope about is the garden stork that I wanted. There are things recently that I keep looking at that I want for my fake garden. A garden stork, they look amazing, the ones at Farm and Fleet. But I would also like birdbath. It would be so neat to get to put things in a garden. I wish so badly that I could have a garden with little things to put in it. I just have to stop wanting things. Someday I'll have a garden and someday my guy and me will put whatever little things we want in it.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Planning!
Hellooooo!!!
So today is the day of plan. I didn't update on Saturday, but I have news!
Spent a few hours at Kelly and Chris' house on Saturday with mi madre and Emma. It was great. The kids running around squealing and enjoying themselves, but the best was the fact that little Jonathan was 'help weed!' Hehehe. He had the hand trowel and was turning the soil to get out the weeds. He's a very helpful little man. Where baby Sarah was far more interested in putting the leaves in the brown bag. They were both so amazingly helpful and cute. So as of Saturday, the garden area has been turned and weeded, ready for seeds!
Anyway, with mom's help I have decided the next stage in the works. Sunflowers. We've decided we need far more of them as well as different varieties. This time there will be autumn beauties, but these being planted directly into the dirt. The Dahlias are going around the bench and something purple or blue. Yes that's right this is quite an endeavor and I hope its all worth it in the end. I definitely am still feeling Saturday's shoveling.
SUNDAY! Mom bought us some more seeds. I got another packet of chive seeds to fill in the edges of my pot. Hopefully this all works out because yes I believe I am vaguely jealous of the fact that Nicky's chives are already so huge. I planted those this morning and I will be potting the sunflowers we already have, attempting to give them more space to make it through the next week.
BUT! These are all the beginning stages so I am just riding the wave.
On the other end of the spectrum, I have decided between the most difficult and messy things and those which would yield the most stuff. SO! After mass reading online I have discovered that I can make essential oils WITHOUT a distiller. Perfectly grand. So this year I am making candles. I am going to make basil candles with chive flower accents in them because the flowers have no smell once doused in wax. I'm also going to make some spice candles using the cumin. (which is great because another cumin plant came up the other day)These of course are suppose to have an effect on mood which each different smell.
Candles, sounds fun right? I know I'm looking forward to it!
So today is the day of plan. I didn't update on Saturday, but I have news!
Spent a few hours at Kelly and Chris' house on Saturday with mi madre and Emma. It was great. The kids running around squealing and enjoying themselves, but the best was the fact that little Jonathan was 'help weed!' Hehehe. He had the hand trowel and was turning the soil to get out the weeds. He's a very helpful little man. Where baby Sarah was far more interested in putting the leaves in the brown bag. They were both so amazingly helpful and cute. So as of Saturday, the garden area has been turned and weeded, ready for seeds!
Anyway, with mom's help I have decided the next stage in the works. Sunflowers. We've decided we need far more of them as well as different varieties. This time there will be autumn beauties, but these being planted directly into the dirt. The Dahlias are going around the bench and something purple or blue. Yes that's right this is quite an endeavor and I hope its all worth it in the end. I definitely am still feeling Saturday's shoveling.
SUNDAY! Mom bought us some more seeds. I got another packet of chive seeds to fill in the edges of my pot. Hopefully this all works out because yes I believe I am vaguely jealous of the fact that Nicky's chives are already so huge. I planted those this morning and I will be potting the sunflowers we already have, attempting to give them more space to make it through the next week.
BUT! These are all the beginning stages so I am just riding the wave.
On the other end of the spectrum, I have decided between the most difficult and messy things and those which would yield the most stuff. SO! After mass reading online I have discovered that I can make essential oils WITHOUT a distiller. Perfectly grand. So this year I am making candles. I am going to make basil candles with chive flower accents in them because the flowers have no smell once doused in wax. I'm also going to make some spice candles using the cumin. (which is great because another cumin plant came up the other day)These of course are suppose to have an effect on mood which each different smell.
Candles, sounds fun right? I know I'm looking forward to it!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The First Melon!
For those of you who don't get that, its from Ice Age, or rather the 'last melon' is from Ice Age. Anyway! The point remains that I am in awe and have become quite jolly! I produce before you! The first planted pots of 2011!
Very exciting, VERY exciting indeed! Mom produced me with some dirt. I would have bought it myself, but as we are all well aware,... I'm cheap. Plus I forgot that I could acquire some from my friendly neighborhood garden providers. They have a mountain of dirt that currently has no home or plant to cover until I get the remaining leaves cleaned out of the area.
Speaking of them by the way, I mentioned to mom that perhaps since she's going through yard withdrawal as well, that I'm sure she'd be welcomed to join me on a weekend to bring the Emma-pie and let her play whilst she aids me in the garden. They are such wonderful people those Morton's. I honestly want to repay them by making what I think will be a grand garden for them. I think she wants to plant an actual garden with potatoes, which is something I would love to do, but in order to do that I think we'd have to find a different plot. The current plot providers aren't into growing root veggies I think.
Nice and tall those sunflowers are. I wish they'd hold off just a wee bit longer, I have to wait another two weeks before they go into the ground and all. I would prefer if they'd get more stocky rather than taller, but they are already growing a second pair of leaves! Those in the middle there are the cumin, looking very nice and healthy. They didn't make it into the pot today. Only the basil managed that feat, though I did plant, in that short snubby pot, some chives! I new attempt. Anyway, the little ones are the strawberries, finally getting on their way. They are three where they once were only two and I'm so pleased. The poor man's weather glass, they are doing alright but I still need some research done on those. Make sure they aren't climbers.
Alls looking great people! Can't wait to keep a weather eye on the horizon for those baby chives (Nicky has some accidental ones in her garden, lol), and get this garden off to a better start than spring is!
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Garden Bunny
Very exciting, VERY exciting indeed! Mom produced me with some dirt. I would have bought it myself, but as we are all well aware,... I'm cheap. Plus I forgot that I could acquire some from my friendly neighborhood garden providers. They have a mountain of dirt that currently has no home or plant to cover until I get the remaining leaves cleaned out of the area.
Speaking of them by the way, I mentioned to mom that perhaps since she's going through yard withdrawal as well, that I'm sure she'd be welcomed to join me on a weekend to bring the Emma-pie and let her play whilst she aids me in the garden. They are such wonderful people those Morton's. I honestly want to repay them by making what I think will be a grand garden for them. I think she wants to plant an actual garden with potatoes, which is something I would love to do, but in order to do that I think we'd have to find a different plot. The current plot providers aren't into growing root veggies I think.
Nice and tall those sunflowers are. I wish they'd hold off just a wee bit longer, I have to wait another two weeks before they go into the ground and all. I would prefer if they'd get more stocky rather than taller, but they are already growing a second pair of leaves! Those in the middle there are the cumin, looking very nice and healthy. They didn't make it into the pot today. Only the basil managed that feat, though I did plant, in that short snubby pot, some chives! I new attempt. Anyway, the little ones are the strawberries, finally getting on their way. They are three where they once were only two and I'm so pleased. The poor man's weather glass, they are doing alright but I still need some research done on those. Make sure they aren't climbers.
Alls looking great people! Can't wait to keep a weather eye on the horizon for those baby chives (Nicky has some accidental ones in her garden, lol), and get this garden off to a better start than spring is!
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Garden Bunny
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