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Oct. 10th, 2014 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaAch. There's a fresh falling of dead leaves on my garden so I thought I'd dig up a new hole and bury them. Then out of curiousity, I thought I'd dig up a site I've used for trench composting before. To my surprise, where I'm digging is still extremely difficult to dig up... it feels like I'm hitting stone. The earth IS darker than before but there isn't really any sign of mulching. Chances are I just don't know how to recognize it (and my dad doesn't really do composting so much as he does "toss everything into a heap and leave it alone" kind of terra preta composting so I have no experience for reference) but I thought that it would be a lot less difficult to dig, and it shouldn't feel like I'm hitting stone or very hard clay.
In many ways I'm doing work that one might do in a long-term garden, which I feel I shouldn't be doing since I'm only going to be here a short while more. It is very frustrating, though, because I would like to see more flowers and the such in my garden throughout the year. So I am trying to prepare the ground for the impending sowing (which can't happen until late November, I think, because my god it is October but still 30'c out why??? I'm guessing a previous tenant also laid down some woodchippy stuff as a kind of mulch to keep weeds down or water in but frankly all it's doing is get in my way. I want to harvest them to grow orchids or something but I don't even know how to do that.
I've got to figure out a site to bury the incoming cattails which the tree outside my place is going to rain down in just a few weeks, too. I think I'll pick a corner this time, where the hibiscus used to grow.
I've yet to ask Dr. LR for a cutting of roses from her garden--she grows some big beautiful ones and apparently they're really low-maintenance and don't like a lot of water once they're established. Maybe next week when it's classtime. I'm also going to see if I can get some mini-roses at the Botanic Gardens plant sale too.
Gonna also start a new worm bin, but an indoor one this time, to keep the other bugs out. There're a few in the bin outside, and I thought there were more but I guess not. At least the tree stump of the palm I decimated back in 2012 is almost gone. I'm thinking of taking advantage of the fall sale at Uncle Jim's, and add half of it to the outdoor bin. OR I could just keep them all indoors and leave the outdoor bin alone, use it for planting veggies in the spring when everything's finally composted.
In many ways I'm doing work that one might do in a long-term garden, which I feel I shouldn't be doing since I'm only going to be here a short while more. It is very frustrating, though, because I would like to see more flowers and the such in my garden throughout the year. So I am trying to prepare the ground for the impending sowing (which can't happen until late November, I think, because my god it is October but still 30'c out why??? I'm guessing a previous tenant also laid down some woodchippy stuff as a kind of mulch to keep weeds down or water in but frankly all it's doing is get in my way. I want to harvest them to grow orchids or something but I don't even know how to do that.
I've got to figure out a site to bury the incoming cattails which the tree outside my place is going to rain down in just a few weeks, too. I think I'll pick a corner this time, where the hibiscus used to grow.
I've yet to ask Dr. LR for a cutting of roses from her garden--she grows some big beautiful ones and apparently they're really low-maintenance and don't like a lot of water once they're established. Maybe next week when it's classtime. I'm also going to see if I can get some mini-roses at the Botanic Gardens plant sale too.
Gonna also start a new worm bin, but an indoor one this time, to keep the other bugs out. There're a few in the bin outside, and I thought there were more but I guess not. At least the tree stump of the palm I decimated back in 2012 is almost gone. I'm thinking of taking advantage of the fall sale at Uncle Jim's, and add half of it to the outdoor bin. OR I could just keep them all indoors and leave the outdoor bin alone, use it for planting veggies in the spring when everything's finally composted.