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Mar. 28th, 2010 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessWhat was happening with me yesterday? Oh, right:
So what we did, was, we took the wheelbarrow full of broken up cement that I think were from the old fence and laid them out in a circle, poured some drainage rock over that, poured some sand over that, and put potting soil on top of the sand. Voila, hill. Teeny tiny hill, maybe a foot high, but it's in a very flat backyard and I got all excited about terraces after watching the Nova on Macchu Picchu and wanted to build a hill.
On the hill, I planted a couple of rosemary seedlings scavenged from my mom, garlic chives, chives, oregano, tarragon, thyme, lime thyme (so fun to say!), and sage. The parsley, if you are wondering, is in the kitchen.
i'm very pleased with the job we did putting in drainage for the lemon tree - I watered it for half an hour with th soaker hose and didn't get a pool of water. I hope it lives. Another volunteer from my mother's yard, rescued from the impending master gardener design.
DH put the tomatoes (we ended up with 5 plants, all heirlooms) in individual pots, and the peppers (6 anaheims and a sweet pepper we were told was similar to an anaheim but sweet instead of hot (and, I think, red) but whose name I cannot remember) in a window box style pot (though it is not in a window, it is over next to the fence with the tomatoes). He also started a Toyon bonsai, it will be exciting if it lives.
Moved the lavender into a bigger pot, it was amazingly rootbound. Put a Lily of the Nile in the lavender's old pot. I still have two or three of those to find homes for, and a couple of camellias. Put the chocolate mint (which smells SO GOOD) in a little pot which would be perfect except it turns out to have no drainage holes at all, so I need to move that. Still need to move the orange stars into a bigger pot.
And the six corn seedlings that we just could not resist (I love fresh sweet corn with an unholy passion, but we hadn't planned to grow any or prepared a plot for it or anything) are still sutting on the table waiting to go in the ground. I have sort of a plan for dealing with them. They'll go along the fence, behind the lemon tree, and they'll get some nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Maybe I will invest in some fish meal for them, though I really don't like the smell.
Oh, put some catnip in a hanging basket. Hopefully, the cats won't find it and rip it down and devour the whole plant. I think I have foiled them logistically, but they can be quite resourceful.
It's supposed to rain today. And most of the week. I hope it is the gentle rain that droppeth from heaven like mercy and not downpours that will drown everything and erode my soil. We shall see.
- 11:48 Lemon tree planted. Hill maybe half built.
- 16:12 Herbs, tomatoes, peppers planted; lavender repotted. Still have impulsively bought corn to deal with. Tomorrow is soon enough for that. #fb
So what we did, was, we took the wheelbarrow full of broken up cement that I think were from the old fence and laid them out in a circle, poured some drainage rock over that, poured some sand over that, and put potting soil on top of the sand. Voila, hill. Teeny tiny hill, maybe a foot high, but it's in a very flat backyard and I got all excited about terraces after watching the Nova on Macchu Picchu and wanted to build a hill.
On the hill, I planted a couple of rosemary seedlings scavenged from my mom, garlic chives, chives, oregano, tarragon, thyme, lime thyme (so fun to say!), and sage. The parsley, if you are wondering, is in the kitchen.
i'm very pleased with the job we did putting in drainage for the lemon tree - I watered it for half an hour with th soaker hose and didn't get a pool of water. I hope it lives. Another volunteer from my mother's yard, rescued from the impending master gardener design.
DH put the tomatoes (we ended up with 5 plants, all heirlooms) in individual pots, and the peppers (6 anaheims and a sweet pepper we were told was similar to an anaheim but sweet instead of hot (and, I think, red) but whose name I cannot remember) in a window box style pot (though it is not in a window, it is over next to the fence with the tomatoes). He also started a Toyon bonsai, it will be exciting if it lives.
Moved the lavender into a bigger pot, it was amazingly rootbound. Put a Lily of the Nile in the lavender's old pot. I still have two or three of those to find homes for, and a couple of camellias. Put the chocolate mint (which smells SO GOOD) in a little pot which would be perfect except it turns out to have no drainage holes at all, so I need to move that. Still need to move the orange stars into a bigger pot.
And the six corn seedlings that we just could not resist (I love fresh sweet corn with an unholy passion, but we hadn't planned to grow any or prepared a plot for it or anything) are still sutting on the table waiting to go in the ground. I have sort of a plan for dealing with them. They'll go along the fence, behind the lemon tree, and they'll get some nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Maybe I will invest in some fish meal for them, though I really don't like the smell.
Oh, put some catnip in a hanging basket. Hopefully, the cats won't find it and rip it down and devour the whole plant. I think I have foiled them logistically, but they can be quite resourceful.
It's supposed to rain today. And most of the week. I hope it is the gentle rain that droppeth from heaven like mercy and not downpours that will drown everything and erode my soil. We shall see.