Weekend Finds and Fun
May. 8th, 2012 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprig(Monday went by before I managed to write this up!)
We found a bay tree!!
Background: we have been looking for a bay plant to grow for several years, through several nurseries. They're a Mediterranean tree and can't survive outside in a NY State winter, but they can be brought inside for the winter if grown in a pot - and T. cooks with a lot lot lot of bay.
So we finally found one utterly by accident while looking for pepper plants! SO EXCITED!
(We also: saw the Avengers, bought a cherry tomato, and bought sage, mint, mint, and strawberries. And Lavender).
Capriox came to hang out Sunday afternoon for a while - we ate banana bread and showed off our mess. :-D It's always awesome when friends come to visit. <3
Then we got to work on the "invasives" garden: A spot by the eastern side of the house, between the chimney and the garbage cans, where I planted freecycled chives last year. This year I added chocolate mint and pineapple mint in these two giant square cement blocks that had been stacked near the chimney. Should take them a couple weeks to grow out of that!
Link du jour: Vertical Farm in a gutter!
Please check out the Summer Giraffe Poll and the Giraffe Theme request.
We found a bay tree!!
Background: we have been looking for a bay plant to grow for several years, through several nurseries. They're a Mediterranean tree and can't survive outside in a NY State winter, but they can be brought inside for the winter if grown in a pot - and T. cooks with a lot lot lot of bay.
So we finally found one utterly by accident while looking for pepper plants! SO EXCITED!
(We also: saw the Avengers, bought a cherry tomato, and bought sage, mint, mint, and strawberries. And Lavender).
Capriox came to hang out Sunday afternoon for a while - we ate banana bread and showed off our mess. :-D It's always awesome when friends come to visit. <3
Then we got to work on the "invasives" garden: A spot by the eastern side of the house, between the chimney and the garbage cans, where I planted freecycled chives last year. This year I added chocolate mint and pineapple mint in these two giant square cement blocks that had been stacked near the chimney. Should take them a couple weeks to grow out of that!
Link du jour: Vertical Farm in a gutter!
Please check out the Summer Giraffe Poll and the Giraffe Theme request.
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Date: 2012-05-08 04:54 pm (UTC)Also yay Cap! :D
...Ooh. Vertical farming. Yeah, my robot world needs that... not for the robots, of course.
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:01 pm (UTC)Pineapple mints and chocolate mint. Chocolate is prettier and pinapple has a stronger smell.
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:26 pm (UTC)Wow, I have never heard of pineapple mint! But chocolate mint is pretty awesome. I used to have some in a little pot, but I guess it must have died...
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:28 pm (UTC)I didn't know you could kill mint!
I hope mine doesn't drown, actually... it's been pouring since I planted them.
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:31 pm (UTC)Awesome!
When it rains a lot my backyard smells like tea :D
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Date: 2012-05-08 05:44 pm (UTC)Would a dry well affect the smell?
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