Okay, then, it's dry as bones (apparently, this summer, we only get rain on Sundays, and I'm not even joking) and too often hot as hell (not right now, but both April and May have been the hottest months on record, and June shapes up to be the same) so I decided to take some pictures of this year's gardening adventures before we're not allowed to ( Read more... )

And by "urban" I mean the place where I live, Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf (although, actually, I refuse to acknowledge Hellersdorf as part of the Berlin district I live in. Hellersdorf is weird. It's always been weird. It's a place I do not identify with. I still live and will forever live in a Berlin with the borders of 2000, when the world was ( Read more... )

Two days ago, in the middle of the night, I finally used my Rühlemann's gift card from three years or so ago and made a spontaneous plant order for the spring (which was, considering that we're currently in the middle of this winter's only cold wave with temperatures between -2°C in the day and -15°C at night, maybe a little optimistic. But, okay, ( Read more... )

You know, in case you haven't noticed yet ( Read more... )

One week of writing and running down, couple more to go (so far, it looks like I might have a rough draft of my thesis finished by mid-July but yeah, knocking on wood and all that here) and my first instinct was to blog about the epiphany concerning my working theories I had today on the train home but then I remembered that I've made a ton ass ( Read more... )

Haven't written my weekly blog entry last week although I'd been planning to (something about my sister moving to York in August kind of reluctantly and me reading The Taliban Shuffle and getting the seven year itch about moving on, it's kind of a mess, actually) but I haven't sorted out my thoughts on that properly yet, so none of that for the ( Read more... )

Yay, after weeks, I finally managed to do some planting and seeding. I didn't go to Staudenmarkt this year, after all because I didn't feel like it (I must have pulled some muscle or other the week before and moving my left arm wasn't fun that day) and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on plants that might not survive our projected forced ( Read more... )

Okay, got my last paper before the Master's thesis back marked (a 1.7, which is something like an A-, I guess so yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!) and to celebrate the occassion, I ordered this year's crop of seeds on Dad's money (Mom asked him, he agreed, don't worry). They include:

• Cherokee Mountain Mint
• Chili 'Criolla Sella'
• Chili 'Anaheim'
• Pomegranate Tree
• ( Read more... )

While Mom is forcing me to watch "Van Helsing" (why? WHY does this movie exist? Who looked at the script and thought "Yep, we're gonna pour a lot of money into this. Sounds like a capital idea."?), I can report that for the first time in four years I just sent away an application for an actual grown-up job (I don't think I'm gonna get it since they ( Read more... )

Yay, it's gardening talk time again \o/ (in case anyone's been wondering: yes, there are other things going on in my life than gardening and being annoyed by Tumblr, and we'll come to that later. Maybe. At some point. If I feel like it.). Not much has been happening except plants growing and/or being destroyed by pigeons but there are a few notable ( Read more... )