Today was the first real harvest! We had tomatoes, and bell peppers, and habaneros and jalepenos! And basil and marigold and purple globe amaranth.
The basil, marigolds, and globe amaranth I set out to dry. It'll be ready to jar in maybe a month or two. I'm pretty excited about this! I need to harvest some sage.
Kitbo came home today. I am both grateful and very sad. His little pawprint is so precious.
I few days ago I found those beautiful pots on clearance for $10 each. I went out to find some plants that might look good in the pots... Today I found two black eyed susans for those pots. I also found a thai basil plant. It smells like licorice! I love it! I also found a beautiful white and pink Mexican Rose and a flame Ice Plant for the pot hanging above the bird bath garden. The celiosa seem to be doing much better in the ground than in that pot.
I also bottled up some herbs I had harvested a while back. Rose, Rue, Marigolds, Citronella, and Mugwort. Boo was escorted out of the area as I did not need help (and honestly I didn't want him to get sick from eating something). We will not be using these for eating....these are for offerings and ritual/cleansing herbs.
I got this baby at a 99 Ranch Market. He was a small cutting in a 10" pot. He also moved with us to this house and that when I added the trellis.
Your plants don't have to look perfect, they go through tough time, like us. I did overwater him a bit in February and got sunburned on the lower part, but damn he is coming back strong. 💚 💪🏽
I grew micro greens in one of the oyster shells I kept from a seafood restaurant. It only took a few days for the seeds to germinate. Once they matured I used the micro greens as a topping on one of the pizzas I made.
I’ve decided to try to identify (using Seek, it’s a handy app) as many random plants as possible, and draw them both as an artistic exercise and a way of keeping notes. We’ll see how long I last!
I worked in the garden just a little bit today! Things are coming back pretty nicely all things considered. The mums are about to bloom and the Angel’s trumpets are budding! The basil reseeded itself so I have tiny tiny basil growing by our big basil and thankfully our spinach haven’t died yet! Granted I’ve yet to plant them. I’m kind of a little afraid to. At some point I know that i will have to. But today was not that day.
So I had been keeping all of the tags from the plants we buy and plant just as a way to keep track and remember the things we plant. And our wonderful grey cat named Spooky Jack aka “Boo” for short has been making a game of finding them and my seed packets and hiding them around the house. So I took matters into my own hands and made a binder to keep track of them. No BOOS allowed.
So this is the kind of updates I want to be putting out. I forget the last time I water some of my plants and I want to document everything: good and bad. And today, there’s kind of more bad.
So I’d like to start this off by saying this morning, only 14 minutes after I closed my eyes to go to sleep, my sister tells me that our cat knocked over Eros, my pothos. He’s currently in a trenta iced Starbucks cup, propagating in water. So that was a great start to the day. But I did buy a pot for him today, and I plan to pot him when I go back to school in about two weeks.
Galaxy, my mother of many, has not been doing great. He’s losing leaves and I think it’s because his roots aren’t completely covered. So I need to add more dirt to the top of his pot, which I will do once I get back to school.
Aphrodite, my jade succulent, is living in a Starbucks sample cold cup. Her dirt wasn’t touching the sides of her cup anymore, so I had to make sure to maneuver the cup so the dirt could break up.
Hope, my peperomia hope, has been feeling both like she does and doesn’t need water. Some leaves were able to be bent and some were firm. So I didn’t know what to do.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I watered Pluto, my Irish bouquet, or Athena, my gasteraloe. I have plans for watering Athena, so I’m going to wait to water her until I go back to school. For some reason, I cannot find much of any information on Pluto. I saw one video that said that Irish bouquets are dormant in the warmer months and to water them less during that time. Well, now it’s cold and I don’t know what that means.
Lilith, my peperomia orba or peperomia lime, is doing okay partially. I got her from Etsy a few months ago. She has like four clusters (?) in a 6” pot, which is how she was shipped to me. And just recently, like yesterday, one of the clusters rotted. The other three are doing great, but I am terrified for what that means because it’s happened to me before, so I’m just going to let her be for right now.
Lately, Mercury, my peperomia frost, has not been doing that great. I would prune her for propagations and the stems would rot. After removing the rotted parts of the stems, the leaves are now all rooting. However, it does still make me worry about Mercury. I plan to look at her roots when I go back to school.
Jupiter, my tradescantia sillamontana, has been doing GREAT! That is all.
Jupiter’s baby, Callisto, who had just been named today, was not doing too well in my attempt of soil propagation. I cleaned him off, dipped him in cinnamon, and stuck him in some water. Now he looks so much better and I hope to see roots soon. Sometimes, I try not to name the propagations because my ultimate plan is to add them back to their mother plant. But he’s too cute not to name.
Hecate, my peperomia obtusifolia, has been just failing, to the point where I just wanted to toss her. But I procrastinated, and part of me is happy I did. I pulled her out of her pot to find her soil compacted only around her roots. I cleaned her off as best I could and placed her in water for the time being.
I picked up three things to propagate. I have a watermelon peperomia leaf, which is in water with Hecate. Some little succulent beans that I do not know the identity of at this moment. I am propagating them directly onto soil in Hecate’s old pot. And lastly, I have a singular Hoya leaf. It has no stem, so I don’t know what will come of it. Regardless, I added some cinnamon to the bottom of the leaf and threw it in my misc. propagations Starbucks cup.
I would like to say that my propagations aren’t usually in Starbucks cups, but I had to travel home somehow.