Gardening

[folsom_lives]

When I moved I dug up those planters that I trenched into the hillside. This past weekend we finally got them retrenched into the back yard. while the cuts were nowhere near as deep this time I placed them over some stumps and had to chop out the large tap roots to get the planters level. currently they catch backyard leaf piles and kitchen compost but hopefully this spring I finish them out with some fill dirt and top with compost and get started for real. I have metal frames for them with mesh and frost covers and we're thinking maybe we'll do some citrus plants?

Mine are closed for the season and also collecting leaves and table scraps. I wish I had the foresight to pick up some of their trellis systems before I filled them to the brim.

 

[Tortured Diaper Baby Dept]

I'm heading out of town for work for ~month (26 days). I have a little more than a dozen indoor plants. It's already enough of a chore finding someone to watch someone to watch the pupper while I'm gone, so I don't plan on getting anyone to come in to water the plants. I plan on giving the plants a good soaking right before I leave and upon returning and they are mostly low-light, resilient type plants.

But does anyone have experience with using a clothesline water system? I read online that you can leave a bucket of sitting water and run cotton rope (I've got some cotton clothesline) from the bucket to ~2" into the soil near the base of the plant to keep it hydrated. As well, I have some of the more humid-loving plants on pebble trays that I'll fill before leaving (but will surely be dry by the time I return).

Thoughts?

 

[folsom_lives]

Did some tidying up of the plant shelf on the mezzanine this weekend. One of the kiddos managed to talk me into the small cactuses at IKEA. Not sure how to take care of them since I’ve killed every succulent I’ve ever owned.

 

[MsLoganHenney]

There’s a tree outside my front door that makes me happy to see it bloom. There are a few of them around my condo property. I love all the bees that come around because of the flowers. Get your pollen ladies!

 

[Tortured Diaper Baby Dept]

I've got my irrigation set up for a work trip.

Here's hoping I don't come back to a plant massacre in 25 days.

 

[folsom_lives]

5 yards of premium topsoil/compost delivered yesterday. Time to get cracking on setting up some new beds.

 

[kvetcha]

Did some tidying up of the plant shelf on the mezzanine this weekend. One of the kiddos managed to talk me into the small cactuses at IKEA. Not sure how to take care of them since I’ve killed every succulent I’ve ever owned.

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Love that lamp.

 

[folsom_lives]

Love that lamp.

I think I grabbed it from World Market ages ago. Never found a great place for it until I moved the table and plants up to a strange little catwalk/mezzanine to nowhere above our entry hallway.

 

[cul8er]

5 yards

That is quite the haul!

I moved just one yard a week ago. 5 will make a bunch of new beds.

 

[folsom_lives]

That is quite the haul!

I moved just one yard a week ago. 5 will make a bunch of new beds.

I probably did overbuy... but the shipping cost meant that I didn't want to run short. I've got places to hide it on nearly 1/2 acre.

 

[Tortured Diaper Baby Dept]

I've got my irrigation set up for a work trip.

Here's hoping I don't come back to a plant massacre in 25 days.

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I'm happy to say that after a month gone my plants did not die and most were doing pretty well. They were definitely getting water from that bucket as I left it full and came back with 3/4 gone.