Because all my ordered plants finally arrived last weekend (with bugs again, argh, fucking organic gardening companies, AAAAAAAAAAARGH), I realized it might really be time to show you what survived and what didn't and what I bought in April at Berliner Staudenmarkt (a plant market at Berlin Botanical Gardens that takes place annually in April and ( Read more... )

Because I just had my first seeding session (no pictures yet because it would just be soil in pots which doesn't sound particularly exciting if you ask me). I put the following into soil:

• water cress
• licorice tagetes
• aniseed hysop
• tropaeolum
• spinach

Or at least my hands. It's been ages since I posted anything that wasn't fic or fic related, and there are reasons for that (which I will talk about in a separate post since it's a little more complicated) but hey, gardening season is nearly upon us again!

( Grow ALL THE HERBS! )

Okay, not only for this, since I'm kind of hoping to be at least semi-regular with posting anything to do with gardening but yeah, I still have a lot of free icon space and I guess I can be generous with it?

( Lots and lots of plant pictures (so picture heavy, not dial-up friendly). Did I mention that plants are my family's pets?) )

bepflanzt das Gilatier seinen Balkon. So auch dieses Jahr. Verdammt spät, aber es ist doch passiert. Ich hab jetzt also mal wieder drei Balkonkästen mit Blümschen (Husarenknöpfchen, Petunien (oder so), Verbene, Studentenblumen und noch irgendwas... glaube ich) bepflanzt und Kräuter hab ich auch - Apfelminze, Ananasminze, Zitronenmelisse, Currykraut ( Read more... )