However, I'm encouraged by the results I'm seeing in the front garden as item after item has just popped out in bloom and gotten so much bigger since arriving at Chez Turtle. My Jacob's Ladder has at least doubled and is starting to bloom.One of the sedum (sedums? sedii?) has lazily sprawled in it's bed and needed to be staked and tied. The astilbe and meadow sage are rubbing elbows and competing for attention with their colorful shows.
The bulbs are coming up! The faeries are going to have to move house sooner or later when those babies take off.
This fuschia is just about ready to pop with tons of blossoms (I hope frogs don't like fuschia blossoms).
So, encouraged that I don't have an absolutely black thumb, I decided some flowers and veggies from seed would make great container-gardening subjects.
Like I said, seeds are cheap, since it requires more effort on the part of the gardener and less on the seed company vs. plant grower. Even better than the cheap seeds are the free containers that Doodle supplied me with that the garden center uses to pot up plants. They're ugly, but hey, I like free. I'm sure I will end up thinking up
a way of asthetically improving them, just give me time. We've got bok choi, leeks & scallions, black turtle beans (I didn't just get them because they're turtle beans, I swear! They are my favorite type of beans), pole climbin
g string beans and daikon radish (I have no idea what you do with these on a culinary level, but I just knew our garden needed to have a Radish Spirit in it). I also planted in some freecycle find containers some flowering vines, some sunflowers and some bulbs. This should make my little bench quite an enjoyable place to sit once they take off, that is if I don't end up going overboard with planting seeds and fill up all the space with containers.
An update on the squirrel situation: I have not managed to run any of the little buggers over yet (though I have veered in their direction a few times and I deliberately made tire contact with a dead one) but family victory in the name of squirrel eradication has occurred. After chasing some squirrels away from bulbs he just planted, my dad couldn't take their mockery from half-way up a tree, so he went & got his shotgun and took them both out with one shot! As I live in suburbia, this is not an option for me, unless I want a visit from the police and traumatized neighborhood children. Go Dad! Take one out for me!
The faeries apparently have squirrel issues in their garden too:
a way of asthetically improving them, just give me time. We've got bok choi, leeks & scallions, black turtle beans (I didn't just get them because they're turtle beans, I swear! They are my favorite type of beans), pole climbin
g string beans and daikon radish (I have no idea what you do with these on a culinary level, but I just knew our garden needed to have a Radish Spirit in it). I also planted in some freecycle find containers some flowering vines, some sunflowers and some bulbs. This should make my little bench quite an enjoyable place to sit once they take off, that is if I don't end up going overboard with planting seeds and fill up all the space with containers.An update on the squirrel situation: I have not managed to run any of the little buggers over yet (though I have veered in their direction a few times and I deliberately made tire contact with a dead one) but family victory in the name of squirrel eradication has occurred. After chasing some squirrels away from bulbs he just planted, my dad couldn't take their mockery from half-way up a tree, so he went & got his shotgun and took them both out with one shot! As I live in suburbia, this is not an option for me, unless I want a visit from the police and traumatized neighborhood children. Go Dad! Take one out for me!
The faeries apparently have squirrel issues in their garden too:
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