New Additions

So I went to my local greenhouse and picked up some plants that are on sale.
I went there because i had gone to 3 stores looking for a pepper plant.. here i finally found one.. But it had no stick to tell me what kind of pepper it is..

We shall see



These are Gypsophila

Salvia & Diascia

Dianthus & Argyranthemum

I think i'm done buying plants now.. aghaaa

FERTILIZE!

So here is my experiment ! I fertilized all my plants today with Miracle-gro all purpose fertilizer. I will see how much the plants grow in 1 week and 2 weeks and see just if the little picture on the box.. is realistic!

Here are pictures taken July 3rd.

Daisy & Dusty miller

all the flowers by the ants

box # 1 Tomatoes

Box # 2

Cucumber, Lemon tomato, Chrysanthemum & RosemaryBox #3

Herbs & flowers

LEts see what next sunday looks like!

MY very own Container

I made my own container today... Bought 4 different types of flowers / fillers in the discount bin and made my own container.

The middle is begonia dragon pink, 2 dusty millers, 2 bidy gonzales & axillaris.

it's a little sick right now.. But it will fill out.

I'm so proud! :)

under my umbrella...

It has seriously rained the last 10 days.. so today we had a FEW hours of sun inbetween storms and I ran out and took pictures. You can tell the things like like cool, wet conditions and the ones that don't. :)

here are the new dahlias.

Far shot of the potatoes, Dill, Dwarf sunflowers, Birdseed Sunflowers & Herb basket

3rd Box. Top row L to R is Peas, celery & peas again.
Middle row is Iceberg lettuce and mesclun and Bottom row is all carrots.

pots. Top is Patio pickles, lower is Marketplace & Burpless in the purple container. Rosemary and onions.middle box is exactly the same as 3rd box exept the middle square has radishes. Which are very happy!

marigolds at top. 3 tomato plants & impatiens at the bottom.

1st box. Exactly the same as the 3rd box.

Here is the celery. Didn't notice how much it grew until compairing the pictures.

Dill is recovering. Starting to get its weird little seed flower things.

Don't know if you can see it.. but there is 2 small green leaves coming from the thyme section of my herb basket.

Dwarf Sunflowers

close-up of 2 cucumbers. The leaves are a little ticked because they were in the muddy soil - they will soon be getting staked/ trellised.

Radishes and celery. Happiest vegi's ever!

oregon spring tomato
Beefstake.

and the patio tomato.

closeup of snap peas.

igloo lettuce.
carrots.

this mesclun mix is even getting different colors already.

Wow, Long time nooooo news. Well I did ALL my gardening this weekend. This year I did part container gardening and part Square foot gardening. Big needy plants like Cucumbers & tomatoes just didn't do so well in my SFG last year so I choose to go back to "patio" gardening for them. But the lettuce, carrots & peas did so well having a raised bed.. I choose to keep them in there this year. I hope this year I will get the best of both worlds. :)


These are my "Birdseed sunflowers" that I rescued from underneath my birdfeeder.
Before

Seedlings and empy SFG.
Box #1
Top row is Snap peas, Celery (bought seedling) & snap peas again

Middle row is Igloo (iceberg) lettuce, Mesclun lettuce & igloo again.

Bottom row is all Little finger carrots.

Top pot is Marketmore cucumber.

Then onions and rosemary

All bought seedlings.

This second box is the same as the first exept The mesclun mix lettuce is replaced with radish seeds!

Top 2 pots are oregon spring tomato & patio tomato.

bottom is marketmore cucumber.

Box #3 is the exact same as #1.

Yukon gold potatoes in potato bin.

Dwarf sunflower in small green pot

MY herb pot in the front with Sage, Thyme & Lemon basil. ( may I add these are 29.99 at my local home improvement store )

Hanging baskets. & birdfeeder

potted plants in the front. Pansies & other container flowers.

horrible weather

Everything is kind of growing. My camera isn't charged. Sorry.
The weather has been so BAD. It's been mostly cool and cloudy with storms at night. Lots of my friend and coworkers have lost ALL of their gardens to hail. I even listened to the local garden radio show and they were talking about how horrible the weather has been for gardening. Can't really explain why.

My tomatoes are insane! they re really tall, and i needed lots of sticks to keep them up.

Lettuce is taking over!! I'm looking up recipes for different types of salads and things to do with all of it ! Same goes for spinach!

Peas just started to flower and make little pods :)

Little tomatoes and cucumbers are around.

All the flowers are alive and well. All my rescues are happy.Only the ice geraniums haven't flowered yet. They needed some major rescuing, but are almost there.

My rosemary isn't a rosemary. I'm sure it's some kind of a weed. But i'm afraid to kill it. I mean it can "think" it's a real plant too. It's contained in a pot.. And I don't have the heart to kill it. So it's the happiest little weed ever.

more RESCUES!

HAHAHA.

So this is my new hobby. Not Gardening, but rescue gardening! So many plants given a half hearted chance at life.. and then given to the hands of teenagers running the "garden" sections of the department/box/hardware/grocery store. Anywho. I REALLY ENJOY comments. Makes me so happy knowing other people are out there saving the rejects / neglected plants out there!

So here's Todays findings:

Petunia hanging basket with a few sad looking purple with white lines. I believe they are called violet stars :)! I LOVE THEM but refused to pay such outrageous prices.. Well I got this sad and mildly diseased plant for 10$ YEY!


And from the same store is this other petunia.. a "plum crystal" version.



SO I combined them. As I thought they would look amazing together ( oh and I found a white petunia in the mix! ) I think with a little love this plant will be AMAZING, and better then any 50$ hanger thoose stores are asking. ( The other petunia plant I rescued is behind it )

OH and according to some websites on the internet Petunia's represent : Resentment, Anger & "Your presence soothes me"


Rescued Marigold. I loved the colors. You can see some of the sick flowers and leaves.. And the pot it was in before I transplanted it.. .Can you sat ROOT BOUND! Sad.
Here is her new home.. Again.. weird meaning of marigold is : Cruelty, Grief & Jealousy. And another site claimed they bring you money! taking care of this girl!

Here is a picture of the little guys who started it all. The Matrix pansies. I bought them because I liked the name Matrix ( like my new car! ) and bought them, not knowing anything about flowers. Well now ..10 varieties of flowers later... here they are happy as can be!

RESCUE BASIL

Here is the basil plant I rescued from my local grocery store today. Actually I was out looking for basil.. as I had a sudden intrest in making homemade / homegrown caprese salad. S0 5 stores later I find this pooooor basil barely hanging on. I didn't take pictures of how I got it.. but it was squished in a can sized pot ... dry as could be and with 75% of the plant dead sticks. Only a few plants could be saved. But I'm sure she will recover. So this is my what? 6th rescue plant? hahaha






Here is some updates of the petunias ( not morning glory.. )
June 12:





June 28th:

See what a little love can do!