Garden progress
Apr. 30th, 2012 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzLast year's mystery plant, also known as the diplademia, had died during the winter just like the blue potato bush. I don't wrap plants in plastic in the winter and if it's not from around here, it probably shouldn't grow here in the first place.
The diplademia was a sub-tropical plant, and the blue potato bush could handle temperatures to -3°C, so both died during this OMG-Elfstedentocht-or-not-winter.
The rosemary also finally kicked the bucket, so I removed the three of them. The wood from the rosemary, still very aromatic, as well as the smaller snips of the other bushes were re-used as path mulch, and I threw the roots into the compost barrel. The holes were filled with mulch and (in case of the blue potato bush) my courgette (zucchini) plant.
I also tied the raspberry to some support, put my father's five tomato plants into the soil beneath the beans -- digging for treasure expected later in the year -- and repotted the other courgette and possibly cucumber possibly pumpkin plants into larger pots since they're not quite strong enough to go outside. I also was forced to save the tiny onion blades from the attention of the Lisa. (Nom! Grass!)
She also eats my beans. This is not very good for the beans as they are already complaining about being outside in the soil and they're not strong enough to be missing most of their leaves.
I removed some forest strawberry to give our budding buddleja some chance to grow, and watered my campanula. There's still seedlings in the windowsill and I'm fast running out of space, but I can always remove more forest strawberry to hide some vegetables behind my bee-line (the line of flowers selected especially for their attractivity to bees) just like I did with the courgette plant. I'm also still hoping our Echinacea will come through.
I'm diving into permaculture yet again (too late for this season, perhaps) and realised that I haven't the foggiest clue where to start. Also: our path is on the wrong side of the garden. Maybe I should start with a 'current' sketch and a list of things I'd want to eat from my own garden.
The diplademia was a sub-tropical plant, and the blue potato bush could handle temperatures to -3°C, so both died during this OMG-Elfstedentocht-or-not-winter.
The rosemary also finally kicked the bucket, so I removed the three of them. The wood from the rosemary, still very aromatic, as well as the smaller snips of the other bushes were re-used as path mulch, and I threw the roots into the compost barrel. The holes were filled with mulch and (in case of the blue potato bush) my courgette (zucchini) plant.
I also tied the raspberry to some support, put my father's five tomato plants into the soil beneath the beans -- digging for treasure expected later in the year -- and repotted the other courgette and possibly cucumber possibly pumpkin plants into larger pots since they're not quite strong enough to go outside. I also was forced to save the tiny onion blades from the attention of the Lisa. (Nom! Grass!)
She also eats my beans. This is not very good for the beans as they are already complaining about being outside in the soil and they're not strong enough to be missing most of their leaves.
I removed some forest strawberry to give our budding buddleja some chance to grow, and watered my campanula. There's still seedlings in the windowsill and I'm fast running out of space, but I can always remove more forest strawberry to hide some vegetables behind my bee-line (the line of flowers selected especially for their attractivity to bees) just like I did with the courgette plant. I'm also still hoping our Echinacea will come through.
I'm diving into permaculture yet again (too late for this season, perhaps) and realised that I haven't the foggiest clue where to start. Also: our path is on the wrong side of the garden. Maybe I should start with a 'current' sketch and a list of things I'd want to eat from my own garden.
