Today's Loot
Apr. 6th, 2013 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaGot to campus early to help TX with her diss section which was due at noon. Then I went to the Botanic Gardens plant sale!! I brought a grocery bag because a) it would limit how many plants I'd buy since I was probably walking home with them and b) no awkward walking around with plant in hand.
Turns out many of the pots for the plants I wanted, herbs, were very tiny! It was bigger flowering bushes that would have REALLY limited my yield.
I bought:
- two kinds of chives: regular and garlic. One flowers in spring and the other in fall, and apparently the flowers are edible. I'm pretty sure once I transplant them I will have no idea what they are anymore. I'm thinking of not putting them in the ground, but in a new, larger pot. I'll set that on the wall so my neighbour can help herself to some if she wants.
- an little oregano, now right next to my parsley
- a curly-leaf parsley planted in the same plot as my Italian parsley. (The Italian Parsley is now flowering or something so I've got to do something about it.)
- a squash, because I couldn't resist it, even though one of my classmates said she's giving me one of her squash seedlings. I planted it next to the garlic, and the other one can go to the other side of the garlic since that's where it's sunniest;
- a Spanish lavender, which I've planted closer to the flower row. Once that starts thriving, I'll go get an English and a French one so I can have a variety of lavenders.
There were also delta maidenhair ferns available! And birds' nests!! I got super-nostalgic when I saw them.... my family had a delta maidenhair when I was growing up. Not that I knew what it was called, of course, but I recognized the leaves immediately. Am contemplating it, but it looks fussy. If I had a bigger bottle, I'd make a terrarium with it, which is an idea... I'm going back tomorrow for a talk on vegetable gardening, and may buy one if it's still there.
At this rate I'm going to need a planter or more for all the things I want!!
Turns out many of the pots for the plants I wanted, herbs, were very tiny! It was bigger flowering bushes that would have REALLY limited my yield.
I bought:
- two kinds of chives: regular and garlic. One flowers in spring and the other in fall, and apparently the flowers are edible. I'm pretty sure once I transplant them I will have no idea what they are anymore. I'm thinking of not putting them in the ground, but in a new, larger pot. I'll set that on the wall so my neighbour can help herself to some if she wants.
- an little oregano, now right next to my parsley
- a curly-leaf parsley planted in the same plot as my Italian parsley. (The Italian Parsley is now flowering or something so I've got to do something about it.)
- a squash, because I couldn't resist it, even though one of my classmates said she's giving me one of her squash seedlings. I planted it next to the garlic, and the other one can go to the other side of the garlic since that's where it's sunniest;
- a Spanish lavender, which I've planted closer to the flower row. Once that starts thriving, I'll go get an English and a French one so I can have a variety of lavenders.
There were also delta maidenhair ferns available! And birds' nests!! I got super-nostalgic when I saw them.... my family had a delta maidenhair when I was growing up. Not that I knew what it was called, of course, but I recognized the leaves immediately. Am contemplating it, but it looks fussy. If I had a bigger bottle, I'd make a terrarium with it, which is an idea... I'm going back tomorrow for a talk on vegetable gardening, and may buy one if it's still there.
At this rate I'm going to need a planter or more for all the things I want!!