happy earth day!
I had a pretty great weekend. Saturday I went with my mom to Acadia University for their annual plant sale. I bought five cardinal flowers (a species of Lobelia I think), and a white pine sapling. I haven't decided where the pine is going, but wherever it goes, it's probably coming with us whenever we move out. We also stopped at the Just Us! cafe outside Wolfville, and had great lunch. Very tasty - they have a spicy Mexican hot chocolate that is made nice and dark with cocoa, nutmeg (I think(, cardamom, and cayenne (among other spices). It is delicious. :)
Then I stopped at Canadian Tire and bought a rake, and some peat seed trays, and some peat pellets for starting tomatoes in. I think it's not too late to get them started, and I'd like to have tomatoes before October/November. When my mom and I were at Acadia we went to the Wolfville Farmer's Market, too, which is at the student bldg, and I got some seeds for a variety of tomato plants and some sweet-pod peas, which I am very excited for. Also we got tasty bread and I found a really pretty copper hairclip - my hair is (barely) long enough to pull back again, yay!
So for Earth Day yesterday I got out and gardened! I spent the whole afternoon raking up so much dead grass, you wouldn't believe it. I filled 2.5 of those clear plastic leaf bags and there's enough out there for at least another bag or two. Plus it could stand to be raked again now that all the dead hydrangea blooms have shed. :P
I'm also thinking about building a compost bin. They're not hard to put together and it would be a fun project, plus then I get the benefit of all my nice organic waste instead of letting the city have it. I was also considering a worm composter, too, as they can be fairly small and I could keep it on the deck by the kitchen door (provided the worms would do okay in the winter).
My next project for the yard is more cleanup; there are beds running around the fences and they need to be weeded in a big way. There are some plants I don't want growing in there so I'm thinking about digging them out - they have long reedy stems with a large ball of seed pods at the top - they look kind of like dandelions only about 300% bigger. The beds need to be edged, and there are some mystery plants growing under the hydrangea that I think are lilies that would do better elsewhere, so I need to see about transplanting them before they get too big.
I'll try and get out and take some pics of the various mystery plants when I get home. And on that note I wish I'd had the sense to take a before photo of the back yard. There's already a huge improvement. ^_^
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Then I stopped at Canadian Tire and bought a rake, and some peat seed trays, and some peat pellets for starting tomatoes in. I think it's not too late to get them started, and I'd like to have tomatoes before October/November. When my mom and I were at Acadia we went to the Wolfville Farmer's Market, too, which is at the student bldg, and I got some seeds for a variety of tomato plants and some sweet-pod peas, which I am very excited for. Also we got tasty bread and I found a really pretty copper hairclip - my hair is (barely) long enough to pull back again, yay!
So for Earth Day yesterday I got out and gardened! I spent the whole afternoon raking up so much dead grass, you wouldn't believe it. I filled 2.5 of those clear plastic leaf bags and there's enough out there for at least another bag or two. Plus it could stand to be raked again now that all the dead hydrangea blooms have shed. :P
I'm also thinking about building a compost bin. They're not hard to put together and it would be a fun project, plus then I get the benefit of all my nice organic waste instead of letting the city have it. I was also considering a worm composter, too, as they can be fairly small and I could keep it on the deck by the kitchen door (provided the worms would do okay in the winter).
My next project for the yard is more cleanup; there are beds running around the fences and they need to be weeded in a big way. There are some plants I don't want growing in there so I'm thinking about digging them out - they have long reedy stems with a large ball of seed pods at the top - they look kind of like dandelions only about 300% bigger. The beds need to be edged, and there are some mystery plants growing under the hydrangea that I think are lilies that would do better elsewhere, so I need to see about transplanting them before they get too big.
I'll try and get out and take some pics of the various mystery plants when I get home. And on that note I wish I'd had the sense to take a before photo of the back yard. There's already a huge improvement. ^_^
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