Gardening Post! [NOT 27/2/21]

27/2/21 brightersideoflife 24
image of small veggie garden
not my actual garden

Hi, friends! It’s getting closer to gardening times in my area and I’m so freaking excited!!!

I got some bulbs coming up, I think crocuses. The patch of daffodils is starting to come up, too. I don’t see the lungwort plant coming up, but it’s one of the first to bloom. If you struggle with dealing with winter dead-plant-landia, I highly recommend a lungwort plant. Comes back every year, is blooming when most perennials are still growing stems and leaves. Soft blue-purple blooms that are very pretty, too.

(back story – entering year 3 in my house, previous owner was this nice old lady who liked bulbs and perennials so it’s been a fun experience of “what the hell is that??” since I lived in a condo with basically no outdoor space before)

Soon we’ll find out of the lily bulbs I transplanted made it and if that spot along the fence I buried a ton of tulip bulbs actually had any survive.

I had that rainscaping done in September, so I’m so goddamned excited to see what comes in! Entirely perennials that are native cultivars, and they have a 2 year warranty sooooo if stuff doesn’t come back, I can get more. Some of the coneflowers are getting leaves at the base and the jucus grass ever died over the winter, so that’s a solid start. There’s a berm made up of crested irises that I’m really hoping to see grow in, but the damn bunnies nibbled on them a lot after they were planted so I don’t know how much made it.

I also ordered another raised bed kit from Costco this morning! It’s a 4×4 foot one and the nice thing is the sides are 22 inches. I have a spot planned out already. I know I will bitch and moan about all the fucking potting soil it will take to fill that bad boy, but the convenience of not having to stoop over will be worth it.

I started seedlings today of lettuce, radishes, and spinach. I never have good luck with seedlings but hope springs eternal.

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  2. I’m not a great gardener but I have managed to keep a few houseplants alive for years. One that didn’t survive by time I returned from an extended vacation was my beloved jasmine plant. It used to bloom three flowers every night. I miss coming down stairs and being greeted by their sweet fragrance. I haven’t been able to find the same species since.

    • I didn’t even realize you could have jasmine as a houseplant! I am sorry your beloved plant didn’t make it. 

      I’ve got a small Norfolk pine houseplant that I’ve managed to keep alive for over 4 years and I would be distraught to lose it. 

  3. We’ve still got a foot of snow on the ground, so it’s going to be some time before we are putting shit in the ground.  Although I’ll know when to put the onion starters in–which is when the garlic I planted last fall pops up.  We’ve got all our seed in and will start potting those in probably early April.  I can’t bring myself to waste what little space we have on useless plants.  If I can’t eat it or season something with it, then no thanks.

    • Do you have little space or little usable space? Like I have a lovely flat area in the back of my yard and would love to go to town there, but it’s on the west side and thanks to my neighbor’s ginormous catalpa trees it’s like 4-6 hours of light a day, max once all the leaves grow in. 

  4. probably wont be a garden this year for me
    i mean shit…..i hope to be out of here by the time the beans turn up
    next  year there might be some creative balcony gardening tho

  5. Also if you like the flavor of fennel (and I know it’s not for everyone), it’s almost as hard to kill as a weed. I’ve got a plant going on year 4 of growing back. 

    And if you don’t like the flavor of it, it’s a favorite host plant for swallowtail butterflies and if you’re lucky you’ll be like OMG LOOKIT THE CUTE CATERPILLARS as they munch away on it. 

  6. Not really gardening, but my employer had a holiday “gift” thing with multiple options to choose from.  so I got some little tiny succulents.  A few weeks back, I tried to “plant” them in my long neglected window boxes, and then a couple weeks back, got some nasturtium seeds and poked them in.  we’ve been getting a bit of rain up until recently, but I think it might be mostly done for the year.  Hopefully I can remember to dump some water in once a week or so, and see if anything survives…

    • Oooh I love succulents! Unfortunately I don’t have enough indoor light for them in my house and they get horribly etiolated. I have 1 left from when I used to live in my condo that hasn’t given up the ghost yet, but I don’t have a good long-term plan for it. I might just transplant it outside and let it have 1 glorious summer and then go out in a blaze glory with the first frost. 

  7. I was going to winter sow but never got around to it. I’ll start in April with onions and shallots in containers. Self watering containers for me, my yard is small and crammed with rose bushes.
    I am in zone 6, too, but we still have lots of snow on the ground.
    @brightersideoflife Have you checked to see if you can get compost for the raised beds? My city composts and sells it for cheap, I’ve used it mixed with sand and peat for container gardening. Beats buying bags from the big box store.

  9. I finally am seeing the end of my greenhouse fiasco.  My buddy and me were thinking we were going crazy when we couldn’t get the frame to line up w/ the base metal they sent.  After 2 weeks of wife driving me crazy and calls to the Canadian manufacturer (sawree) they figured out they sent the wrong base for the door opening.  Things started to move after that and I am down to just the vent and door I may put in today.  Met w/ the electrician to get heat and grow lights all set up and should be fully functional in next couple weeks (if I can dig a trench for power w/out hitting anything bad).  I also was fighting w/ Pepper Joes to get my seeds for hot peppers, snow delayed it and then the fucking mailman delivered them to my neighbor.  I’ve got so far…
      Bhutlah Bubblegum 7 Pot Chocolate Seeds   Thai Blend Pepper Seeds  Trinidad Scorpion Seeds   Purple Cayenne Pepper Seeds   Chinese 5 Color Pepper Seeds   Alma Paprika Seeds  Chocolate Ghost Seeds  Chocolate Bell Seeds  Chocolate Reaper Seeds

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    I hope my wife gives me enough space in the greenhouse for all these!
     

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