Couple new pots and a little challenge

So Aldis has had topsy-turvy type planters for 5 bucks each I have yet to take a super good look at mine I just got 2 tomato and herb ones I also have 2 pure topsy turvy from the dollar store as well and I do intend to use them all this year as well one I think I'll put coyote tomatoes in the rest I don't yet know I might try goji or who knows? As a crazy experiment lol 

I also found a planter that I can use to make something nice for my co-worker ATM I'm thinking a mini starter herb garden so I'll prolly have stuff about that too till I give it to her (the pot was a quarter the dirt I get ultra cheap and most of the plants I'll be rooting cuttings of in the good dirt before moving over there may try some in there too --so in that case the only cost to me is time which I can deal with to help her out) 

It's loosely like a whiskey barrel "type" thing but a LOT smaller and ill need to add drainage or work something out so it don't get too much or little water 

So ATM I've gotta get up at 4:30 so I can be to work at 6 am! I warned one person I'm not a morning person so I hope everything goes ok the coworker of mine to do this said its busy but its steady too so hopefully it's not too bad for me we will see I just hope there aren't many kids meals ordered because I'm from 3rd and sence valentines day (when I started) I can count the number of kids meals I personally have made on one hand: 0 yes that is a zero lol I know how to make most of the rest of the menu that we have ok tho so that will help lol 

Well wish me luck! 

Some planted

Ok so sence I have to get some sleep before work I'm mostly gonna post pics ill get tags with in another post later (once were closer to done planting everything) I know I still have plenty more to buy tho and its also very early yet to be planting (around June 4 my average which is my birthday) also our puppy broke a clay pot luckily not a planted one but its still annoying I think 

So right now we have tomatoes peppers zucchini and even my moms Mother's Day gift planted (a salsa garden) I have to finish my window box and get a couple fruits and that I'm even starting to debate switching from clay to plastic for some pots just cause the puppy who is afraid of water may break them (and they can break by themselves) 

So on to the pics? Again if you wanna know what anything is just ask (describe what pic/pot/where it is or that) 

This is different for this app! 

Ok so this is just an example of what I look for #1 is the top that its bushy and not too leggy or that (this ones a tad leggy) and roots I actually like a little rootbound about like this I wouldn't go much further tho 

Another plant but that's what happens when you shake the rootball it looks nice and loose 

There's the container the puppy broke! As you can see no chance for repair we also got a hanging basket to have that strawberry in that it needs to get moved over but I can only think of one way and I need a board (flip on top then dump into new pot) 

Ok so here is the mint pot (no signs of anyone coming back but still early so if they do they have a chance still) ATM thats sweet mint but I was gonna get chocolate orange mojito ky colonel grapefruit and whatever else I can (apple too maby hopefully more too) I am a mint ADDICT! And I'll admit it! But it gets tight with just one pot (also we may add drainage to this pot this year) 

Here is my moms Mother's Day gift (we talked about it and this is what we agreed on) it's a salsa garden there's 3 tomato plants 3 peppers 2 tomatillos and 2 herbs (dill and cilantro but I think she was thinking dill was rosemary or chives or "something else" lol) 

Here is my zucchini and my windowbox the zucchini is so I can make relish (oh I LOVE the stuff! Way better then anything in any store if you ask me! And a batch can last a couple years!) then it looks like my catnip plants will be back (still a little early yet) so I left them alone as much as I could but there are 5 tomatillos (1 pack had 2 another had 3) some lemon balm lemon grass pineapple sage and walking onions it's not even half full yet I plan on getting some rosemary maby another sage some lemon verabena possibly (just cause I like it lol) basil and who knows? Lol 

The cauldron with garlic as chives oregano (in the bag from Craigslist) and moms flowers that I think I paid for for her! But meh she got the pot and dirt 

As I've said it's early! But I think I have some basil coming up so I'm just leaving that alone long enough that I can see yes or no 

Tomatoes (ill name them later) 

Peppers --I'll name later but this pot has a jab and a couple outhers I "mixed up" a pack and used it in here 

More tomatoes! Naming later 

Peppers! Naming later 

Tomatoes (naming later) 

My everbearing heritage raspberry in the same pot it was in last year (thinking it would benifit a larger and plastic pot) I'm also thinking I want a yellow raspberry too this year 

Here is my blueberry --I'm thinking ill buy 1-2 more this year including a pink one as well 

And that's what's happened with my winter sewing attempt clearly I failed pretty badly but atleast something's coming up with some of them! So time will tell on them like what they are and that ill prolly have them in for winter but will see 

Well I need to crash as I have to work tonight --will see how things go and don't hesitate to ask questions or that 

First plant purchase of 2013!

As some of you may know I typically don't buy/plant till the first week of June (I've been wearing a halter and hot in that these last few days) even tho I'm in zone 5

My raspberries are definitely coming back my blueberry plant looks like it will as does my strawberry plants look like they too will come back

So the first pic (as I see I have no clue how they'll post on this app) is the purchase and already my mom wants to overtake *my* pots! With her stupid flowers I'm glad she will be eating her geraniums when she can't afford food! And I'll have plenty to eat because I'll have gotten FOOD!

Ok so there's way too many geraniums in there there's also a free wave petunia in there I have no clue the colour

Then the FOOD is (in no order) habanero hole mole hot banana sweet cherry pepperchini big Bertha chocolate beauty (peppers) tomatillo (it was included and I wanted to grow it!) then old German purple Cherokee hillbilly brandywine fanstatic mr stripey mountain fresh mountain spring healthkick (tomatoes)

Yes there are a couple hybrids in there and I'm prolly still gonna be buying more! Certainly have to get my herbs still! Lol so I don't yet know what I'll be doing for spacing or that I think I may sell some of the plants to my uncle tho when it's closer to planting time I just hope like hell they don't die before then lol

I also still have some fruits to buy and I think my winter sewing experiment may have failed tho I have no clue why maby a bad winter? Maby the bottles were sitting in too much water? Who knows? I'll let them stay like that till June tho (and I'll get pics another time)

The other 2 pics are millaegers planters that I really liked and wanted to buy like right now lol I may draw inspiration from them later when I plant everything

What a night! And some good news!

So lets start with the night I'm expecting worse tonight so I have no clue why I'm even awake ATM but I am --I work 3rd at a resturant that does get bar rush and its MAD! Well fri and sat and I had my first large group which wasn't just 6 the limit I've done 5 before nope it was 9! That was something! The cook aka boss (well assistant manager but details) can really scramble her eggs and I felt like those eggs! Even before the reinforcement came to help by break I NEEDED my break! And the video will show I'm fairly worn out at times but I try to continue on no less!

And I'm expecting WORSE tonight!

So ATM my priorities are pay car then get the htc virgin droid (that had I gone sooner I could have gotten the purple one at 179 now a newer is black and 300 I nearly wanna wait see if another colour don't come out but I've been waiting so long anyway) then maby start looking into classes and planning my garden and sign up for one eighter a base one or something that will get me cooking

So the good news? My rasberries and blueberries are definitely coming back! I only had one blueberry plant tho so ill need to buy atleast one more with pit and dirt and I wanna get a yellow raspberry and a pink blueberry plant as well as a white strawberry plant (no sign if those survived if not ill buy more nothing more then June and everbearing there) I also have yet to see if my mints or much else comes back but I think my cat nips will be back

Ill still have plenty to buy more because I started 0 seeds between the bugs and getting the job but maby ill start some next year? --well no I have the winter sewn but not looked at that stuff lately or at all lol so I can only hope some is alive

Well wish me luck! Ill likely dump a weeks pay or 2 weeks pay into the garden this year but if I buy its all my stuff as it is moms allready tryied her "we agreed every outher year" crap when she can't do shit with the beds she has! If stuff comes back that's fine cause its free but if it dosent then she can't have it if I'm buying unless one MORE pot is hers! (There's allready a couple that are all hers perennial flowers I won't touch them) and I call it crap because it is last year was HALF flowers (just look at the pictures!) and the year before ALL flowers! (That's on the livejournal still tons of pics there too!) so it's not like she gets 0 flowers she has the beds and she still wants *my* containers? Ill have to figure when to water with my work schedule and when to plant and that too but ill have plenty to eat may even take baskets in to my 2 coworkers on weekends or the sort lol I suspect they may like that! Or I could make an herb pot thing mini for inside I have plenty of water beads lol will see but ill prolly be bringing stuff in for them maby 2nd and 1st too?

I know ill need to buy even more pots likely too but I only ever use the clay and yup they do stay out all winter and most of the time no they don't crack unless there too small or something oh and I have to go to that place I don't shop to get a couple herbs as well as possibly another couple garden centres but most will be from millaegers as it allways is! (I love them and working across the street from them kinda annoyies me there not open when I'm up/off lol but ill know about the tent sale and that quickly!)

Current fun!

I know it's been AGES AND AGES sence I've last posted here's some of what's happened:

Joined a swap dissapeared someone claimed they would send an extra pack to me then they decided it wasn't "worth" it that the "gesture" was enough (I live with a compulsive liar words don't mean much after a point) well I'm not pleased (and yet they can re-mail to the person they were assigned to? Or offer to? What they gonna use the "mailmans a theif" excuse again? I emailed the post and they are with me if that was true the bloke wouldn't work there!)
Same swap person assigned to send me something didn't (how hard is it? A stamp or 2 and a card that you can make yourself!)
The host (someone! Lol!) sent a fantastic package that I need to send something *very* nice back as thanks!

With that yup I'm still generally behind on trades

And on that note lol I semi-recentally got a pack that not only did they mark as much as "be careful" (don't have exact words) 2 times but they also paid the surcharge and it looks like it was machined 2 times RUINING something that was in it! I would have added extra bubbles or so then only paid the surcharge if it was past too thick this only proves what I've been saying 1 KNOW REGULATIONS! And 2 they machine EVERYTHING! (I have bubbles with machine markings what they typically charge parcel aka 2x rate for!)

Now lol in outher news I have a job (yup lucky me! Lol) it's got fun people and is 3rd shift which is he'll when like now I should be sleeping and ms 1st shift over there has talking heads so loud across the house I can hear clearly (and hamster cage needs cleaning I'm thinking smaller cage but prolly both need lol) and she seems to think its somehow ok because she is DEAF!

And lol with having the job lol I'm thinking ill just be lazy and "buy" all my plants this year but try to get cuttings and such as possible as I wanna try getting some to stay inside as well as stuff outside and some for the kitchen

I have like 10 pots outside and ill prolly get/rig lights and such (all daylight 100+ watt cfl anything else is sub-par tho I could possibly toss a flood or general couple plants in too for warmth depending) for inside containers then see what I can do with the kitchen ones tho there likely to be in mason jars it's looking ATM

Ill prolly talk more about that plan later ATM I have to pop by the string of swears who fell down 2 stairs and is now saying she could have had a brain injury well she KNOWS what those stairs are like and that's why I'm like never down there (bad scrape on my elbow once) so her fault as she could get it made better as well!

Well night-night everyone! Hopefully ill get to posting more regularly soon? I have a couple ideals which could lead to fun stuff and as I believe in buying more not less that may lead to things here as well? (Ex: $10 a kilo or $50 for 100 kilo even if I only need 30 kilo ill prolly still pay the extra $20 as that over doubles what I'm getting --also note: this ex it's same product and that not competition stuff)

Been a bit

Well it's been a while sence my last post (leaving plant swap because they would rather defend a liar over help a noob) in that time I've found out I'm ultra sucky with money (I can atleast stay above if barely at times but my card shouldn't allow Togo under eighter which helps)

My minds not on the garden ATM if anywhere lol

We actually got a puppy about a month and a half ago (that I've been spoiling sence lol) she is allegedly a boxer mix but they changed there story with her so I really don't know (first we know something now we know nothing so I guess I won't be going back) and I really like her! So I'm getting cord and stuff to make her a fairly strong collar and leash (LOTS have said she looked pit even a vet-emt was adamant she was pit! So if she has ANY of the strength ill need the strong stuff!)

Actually I do love playing with 550 or paracord I may do a couple giveaways or that with it --what would y'all like to see? Anything specific?

I definitely will be doing a garden this year yet again moms starting with her "we agreed every outher year" crap which when it was half flowers last year AND she never bothers with the beds that are ALL hers?! Why should I bother? I work 3rd I'm gonna grow what I want/can afford ill even buy over a few weeks if I must and ill teach the puppy (jenielle or so? I call her Jen or Jen-Jen) as well what she will need to know who knows? I may even bake and give away some dog treats too only time will tell

I still like my job even tho I got burnt a couple days ago and it looks semi-bad it may just keep me out of the back or outher wise being clever till its all healed up because that with heat well I'm no happy camper lol

Speaking I live with a HYPER first shifter I need to get some sleep in soon will see how tricks work out (plus is further into summer means more in tips and I work allmost across from my favourite garden store which I love that too as after work can chill and wait till they open or get before I get to work lol)

Bad times

Another non-gardening lol

It's been a really bad last few days or so for me

First I find monkey my Syrian hamster nearly in the middle of her cage in the daylight *still* (she is never typically there) so I shake the cage a little and that --and well she is stiff later I try to get a look at her and it looks like wet tail may have killed her something I knew about and should have been watching for!

Now I really don't know what to do aka if I should get another or what she was a special one and if not for my working all night and sleeping all day I prolly would have caught and done something --I don't know if I can clean the toys and chews well enough that the contageous thing lol would go away I had plans to get another cage anyway and I have some stuff as well lol just not the cage (that I was gonna put the robo in and give the big one back to monkey)

Oh and I've heard most of the time wet tail is fatal so the only little thing is there was a high chance she would have died anyway

On top of that a forum I'm on has decided to side with a possible lie/cheat someone tell me if this adds up or not PLEASE!

Facts as I've heard them from the person
Has to send 2 times
Mailman is a mail theif
Mail theif isn't reported (they don't report?)
They have been dealing with this long enough that in December they were aware of it
They think words are better then actions (said they would send me something then decided I wasn't "worth" it that just saying it was good enough)
They when mentioned about 20 times no less and pasted 3 times as well couldn't answer questions about there stuff
They claim to be on a fixed income

Now that specific mix with reports of people not getting and there behaviours twards me does not add up to me --if they know there mailman is a theif then why not report? Not pay double? I know I would get them to figure it out or would try to myself with evidence as well if that were the case let people in on it as well maby send a few Starbucks cards that are tied to my gold card so I can watch if it gets used or see if I get from receivers they got it and ask them then to mail it back --then it's just about going and seeing infos from Starbucks

So I think it's all fucked up and that they would rather take this persons side --well I'm *done* with it! In the off chance they actually decide that they WANT me to be nicer to them (if I think there worth it they pretty much are bottom of my cares after everything and they started low with the questions) then they may consider sending that pack they said they would before but make it really worth it!

Another occurance is that I tryied to alert a new member to poke around a bit look up posts from people and that crap but of course the mods think ANYTHING trying to help is forbidden! And I couldn't send them a pm so again fuck them like I said I'm done/gone! I even logged out (after posting a message that was of course deleted later by a mod who clearly must not care about the members) meh anyone who reads this and is from there should know well enough what I'm talking about --there free to contact me at sakura0garden@gmail.com asking about whatever they like --I think in this instance especially when I was involved in a round robin that I looked foreward seeing to the end and a game it's ONLY FAIR that the people get some alert to my being gone and the reasons behind as well

Even angel knows something's up she hasn't left me more then a few min today!

Also I'm now debating if I even WANT a garden this year!