MANTIS!

Oh my gosh!!

Its been such an exciting week! Mom is on vacation leaving me more time to do what it is I lurves! First, I harvested one of the bigger basil plants because it was in desperate condition. Not enough space for all those roots. So I clipped those down and hung them along with the boxwood because it was starting to dampen off.

The strawberry has grown leaps and bounds and I can't wait for it to start its own little flowers and berries for Emma's delight. So I'm watering and moving them from the indoors to the out because of the chronic storms that have been happening and placed them outside when I discovered something completely shocking!

A MANTIS ON THE MINT PLANT!!!!



Just awesome! I guess he was sheltering from the storms on my mint plant which is awesome. Such a great opportunity.

Cooking with Tine!

That's right peeps! Yesterday I mad the most delicious stuffed peppers known to man! Meaning if I rarely eat them and I was shocked by how awesome it truly was. Anyway the really cool part was that I used mine own herbs to make it! It was really amazing. Sure it was pretty much midnight when we finally got to eat them but it was soooo worth it!

See that basil leaf in the middle? That's only one of my MEDIUM sized leaves! They are so hugely awesome! It was the sweet basil I used this time though because I didn't want overpowering.





EPIC!

Pests!

Oh people, I have been plagued!!!! I suppose this has never been a problem because it seems to this day I've never bought plants from out of doors until this year. Years of only little seedlings worked up to big ol plants and now I'm definitely regretting this stupidity of purchasing from Lowe's because now I have!!!

DUNDUNDUN

Spider mites!

I absolutely loath them! They are slaying my mint plant, and have now affected all but two of my 6 basil plants. After examining the web for some kind of answer I came across something that claims to be a for sure thing. They said that if I mix dish soap, not anti bact. soap, with water and spray each of the plants and then rinse them with cold water we should be good. I really hope so because they are demolishing my plants and I'm getting VERY mad about it. I can't use anything that people can't ingest, because I use them as seasonings, so the soap seems best, but anyone with any other suggestions on the matter, PLEASE let me know.

Home Coming...

Ah its wonderful to be home. Yes its been a few days and all, but that certainly doesn't stop me from taking forever to get back to everyone! I am and forever will be! a slow poke.

Anyway! Upon return from FL, I was shocked to find that m plants had grown magnificently! You have to understand, while I was away I requested for the mother hen to tend the babies and please water them according to schedule. I also requested regular updates, which I did not receive, so I was thinking I would be coming home to a ruined wilted garden! But instead, I came home to this beauteous sight!

And then I went to Nicky's house for memorial day and what did I see but these amazing awesome presents! She gave these to me! Because mine are just so wimpy here at home. She gave me a pot of these things called... coleus! She made them from her very own homegrown seeds from last year and says she wants me to have them for the garden at Chris and Kel's! They look painted! Isn't that awesome!?!?!


Also did a bit of research upon coming home to find that my aloe plant needed mass trimming! Apparently once the leaves drop as low as they had its a strain on the plant, so I now have a cleanly trimmed aloe plant that is nice and gooey.


Oh its been so amazing guys! And to let you go, I have a photo op of my basil plant that is now so big that the leaves are as big as the one at the store! LOOK!







EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

Replanted my lavenders too in nice new pots. Pictures to come!