Friday, May 20, 2016

Quick trip round and update


Pretty needless but my life has been itself lately --somewhat crazy with that lets try to get back "on task" shall we? 


Here's how the seedlings presently look they were better but I left them out the bigger rounds in zip locks and the flat with its lid overnight on a decent day/night (over 40) to harden off then when we had a frost advisory I shoved them back into the ziplock/lid to protect then back open the next day and by now I think most of what's left should make it to planting in a few weeks or so 


Then on to the rest? Plan this year is cut down most of the containers and replace all the dirt --most of what you see will be weeds (manly dandelions) but even then there's still some visible like the chives in here






I have yet to see more then under-bark green from the goji to say it's alive but that will be its pot assuming it comes back (or I'll get another goji) 







I'm still uncertain what's in here but being its 3rd year I hope it shows itself! 


This peony has gone thru hell! It was out in winter in our zone 5 climate in a pot something like a 5-6" thin plastic from the store --so if you're looking for a tough flower here's one suggestion 

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Garbage find and replants


As some may know I work at a truck stop resturant that occasionally means perks --well I found some of these in the cruddy cart we use to take the trash out as well as a bag then later a case I got the bag of them the ones in the trolley ended up dirty and manager got the case of them but I have plenty 




So I took and decided they would make great intermediary planters for my seedlings allow some roots but shouldn't be too insane 


Some I left in the dixies for the time and ones in a larger clear cup


And I'm not sure about how/if the cranberry will survive but I think the strawberries are all lost sadly LUCKILY person said easy return of on mperks at meijer because nothing came up and the kiwi is kinda limping --well I gotta think about getting back to work more getting over and seeing the state of things 

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Sad state with survivors


So really I should have a ton more then this that's still alive but I'm me so I'm not the best at starting indoors and that this much is doing this well is giving me hope --so what's left in no order includes 

Aloe 
Prickly pear 
Zavory pepper 
Marble pepper 
Mini sweet pepper 
Chinese giant pepper 
Verigated 3-color pepper 
Unknown basil 
Coyote tomato 
Convolvus 
Spring flower mix 
Sweet datil pepper 
Money plant 
Unknown pepper (don't look pepper but is seed leaves) 
Hot cherry bomb pepper 
Monkey face pepper 

Im also starting to try to work out what and where I'm gonna get to have in my garden aside from these and with my mom paying to replace the dirt I'm gonna buy myself a couple fruits thinking get a big planter at Costco possibly 2 and get a couple blueberries for one maby grapes or something for the 2nd I know I want growth to look somewhat similar and if my goji fails (it's still green near tips and I've heard it's really slow to come back) she will have to replace it as well 

So any suggestions on what fruits I should get that will work in containers? Note: strawberries hate me! 

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Early morning


Decided to take a quick look at my seedlings before I left to go gravedigging (tip: don't in Illinois 20 bucks to LOOK at a record!) I can't atm tell you much who is what but I think there doing pretty well ---I also put the lemon back in a bag was looking kinda wilty but hopefully it will survive 

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Return

Sadly I think my pinched nerve is back so it's making things just that little bit harder being me I worked after noticing on Sunday but I'm really corious about how Thursday will go I have decided till tonight to decide and if I don't think I can do it I'll call in so far it's kinda iffy but we will see --so back to plants? Because of my working and my back it's been a little while sence I've been able to do much but I did play a little against my better judgement 


First thing was the lemon but that will be in a couple minutes --I also noticed a bit hadn't come up so I pulled out the dixies marked where everything was and put the ones that didn't grow in my dirt bucket (had a couple things growing in it so saved them) 


Next is the lemon it had some white stuff on the base and some of the stem was getting dark I just hope I haven't done anything wrong with it here but I'll be watching it and I still think it wants to live


I'm kinda suprised that pineapple is still alive! And I should have watered the aloe under it in there 


And the cranberry and kiwi the kiwi seem to be doing beyond "just fine" the cranberry is harder to tell tho I'll see once I have it outside for certain 

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Cinnamoned

I've heard a sprinkling of cinnamon helps with some stuff because its anti fungal and just generally really good for you 


There's the little flat 


And the big flat 


A couple plants 


Corn 


Fruits 


The cranberry I really hope is surviving 


And I took and replanted the lemon early found a smaller pot less then a nick at target it's a turquoise type colour that I think is kinda pretty so I buryied the stem a little deep to try to keep around where it was with the outher setup this has cinnamon mixed with potentially bad potting mix orchid stuff and the pellet things that were in with the lemon before 

Monday, April 4, 2016

Rain and Snow

As par it's an odd Spring so far some showing some signs some showing nothing so only time will tell what I have and not 

In the meantime here's a couple shots of what's inside: 













I did transplant the cottons and sorghum (that was labelled as broom corn)