Indoor Gardening
A couple days ago I decided to get off my ass and finally do the things I should have at the beginning of the summer, and indeed, bought the supplies for back then. That being the repotting of plants, fertilizing of the serviceberry, and planting of sorrel in the serviceberry pot.
I didn't actually need to buy fertilizer, I just scooped it out of the worm bucket and added it in while dumping all the dirt from the lemon balm pot into the serviceberry pot, and then scooped a little in to the lemon balm pot and the pot containing the unfortunate plants that my brother's family bought me for Christmas last year as I gave them fresh dirt. I say 'unfortunate' because they gave me a combo pot of a fern and a pokadot plant, both of which were obviously treated with hormones that have severely limited their growth and stem strength, in a medium that contained hard sand on top, so the fact they've survived this long is almost a miracle. They barely had any roots, either, when they should have been rootbound by now in their 6" pot. But now that they're in REAL dirt, they hopefully will be able to get stronger.
I also scattered sorrel seeds on top of the serviceberry dirt, and despite Madeline's insistence on walking on them, they sprouted today!
The main grouping:
The succulents and the fern/pokadot, which I cut back to encourage it to grow roots instead of weak and spindly like it was trying:
And the adorable baby sorrels poking their li'l heads out! Awww, aren't they precious? :D
And also look like a tiny army marching around ginorous Godzilla-size trees.
--Zhora
I didn't actually need to buy fertilizer, I just scooped it out of the worm bucket and added it in while dumping all the dirt from the lemon balm pot into the serviceberry pot, and then scooped a little in to the lemon balm pot and the pot containing the unfortunate plants that my brother's family bought me for Christmas last year as I gave them fresh dirt. I say 'unfortunate' because they gave me a combo pot of a fern and a pokadot plant, both of which were obviously treated with hormones that have severely limited their growth and stem strength, in a medium that contained hard sand on top, so the fact they've survived this long is almost a miracle. They barely had any roots, either, when they should have been rootbound by now in their 6" pot. But now that they're in REAL dirt, they hopefully will be able to get stronger.
I also scattered sorrel seeds on top of the serviceberry dirt, and despite Madeline's insistence on walking on them, they sprouted today!
The main grouping:
The succulents and the fern/pokadot, which I cut back to encourage it to grow roots instead of weak and spindly like it was trying:
And the adorable baby sorrels poking their li'l heads out! Awww, aren't they precious? :D
And also look like a tiny army marching around ginorous Godzilla-size trees.
--Zhora