Muh ars werk better n' yers..
So midday Thursday I start hearing this high frequency squeal in my office. The frequency would change suddenly and at random throughout the day. For the most part I was able to ignore it since I was concentrating more on listening to Netflix and playing WoW, but once Justin got home and we started playing the game together, I abandoned Netflix
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But I live in an apartment where the balcony is shaded most of the day. :/ And the one time I tried growing a pot of herbs, they sprouted quickly and heartily.... but I didn't know what I was doing and they succumbed to too much crowding and their soil got moldy in my too wet house.
So, I'm trying again this year. I bought those terrible little dollar starters to try. Two pots, two terrariums, and one egg terrarium. The two post never took off, but the three terrariums germinated just fine. I've been keeping them on the window sill in my bedroom since it gets a lot of light. The egg was full of herbs and sprung up in a freaking hurry. A week or two and I had to transplant it to another pot because they were beginning to touch the 'roof' of the egg. The other two were bigger pots--maybe the size of a small tea cup--and germinated slower due to the kinds of seeds. I hated to do it on such a very bright day, but I transplanted the Strawberry shoots into a larger pot just a few minutes ago. The sprouts had reached the roof of the terrarium without me noticing until yesterday. The only one left in the little clear package is the aloe plants. Those are slow growing, but they've been steadily at it for a while now.
I'm paranoid about watering these things once they're exposed because this house has the opposite problem... it's so DRY. And sitting on my window sill it great for sun, but it is also behind blackout curtains, which means the heat between the window and curtain gets reflected around a lot. But so far so good. The pots are big enough to leave plenty of growth room for now, so I can load up the soil with water about every 4 days or so and let the plants stretch their roots to get at the wetter soil down below. But since the house is so dry, I keep a tiny spray bottle on the sill and give the leaves a misting once or twice a day depending on how dry the top layer of soil is. This 'replacement dew' seems to be doing the trick as the transplanted herbs are still going strong.
I remember watering my dad's garden every other night. It was something I liked to do, something that was relaxing, so I didn't think of it as a chore. And I think I still have an affinity for hanging ferns because of it.
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And the heat is probably great for them, to be honest - the only time I really had plants suffer was the heat wave we got around June-ish last year that completely baked my Begonias. I think that had more to do with the sun exposure than the actual heat of the day, though. Just keep an eye on them, and if they seem wilty just move them to a cooler location for a little bit and let them recover.
Far as watering is concerned, I usually water my outside plants every few days. Planter/potted plants a little more frequently - lots of sun and sea breeze, so quicker evaporation. n.n I also ended up buying soil last year that was so good at holding water, it had to be thoroughly saturated before the plants began to suck up the moisture... something I didn't figure out until it rained a couple of days, and the begonias, which had been taking their sweet time growing at all, positively blew up.
Regardless, I have a lot of fun planting whatever flowers I decide to stick in the ground.
I don't have as much luck growing from seed, but I think that has more to do with a lack of patience than anything. :3 I might try again one of these days.
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