Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/gardening2

Comment #1920

2009-03-24T00:29:49Z

Today we added 2 (3.8cuft) bags of peat moss and 80lb each of cow manure compost and mushroom compost, spread over our five boxes and the area in front of the porch. It was too much work to do in a day - exhausting for all and small nerves got raw.

It was at Jon's suggestion that I got this stuff before my order of vermiculite came in, and I'm glad, because that stuff is heavy and it filled up the car. And I thought I'd be carrying 4 bags each of vermiculite and peat moss home in one trip...

The original reason was to get some peat moss in if it rains, so the whole thing doesn't turn into a flat of mud clay that dries into rock.

Comment #1919

2009-03-21T11:33:34Z

Hmm, thank you MNKB. I was just thinking this morning of not burying the pot, since we have plastic pots already and I figured I'd want a terra cotta pot for burying, which I'd have to buy because our other ones broke. How's that for a run-on sentence? (:

Comment #1918

2009-03-21T01:43:25Z

Maybe I used the wrong container (I don't remember what I used), but when I planted my mint in a buried container it still spread everywhere.

I hope you do it correctly.

Comment #1917

2009-03-20T03:58:42Z

I didn't want the winter to end, either :-) But gardening is fun. The squirrels helped by planting some extra crocus bulbs in our front yard this year...

Comment #1916

2009-03-19T17:11:31Z

As far as gardening in the city goes, I've seen some pictures of neat platforms people have built outside their windows that stretch out over the open air and provide way more space for growing things than what we had in Pittsburgh.

Comment #1915

2009-03-19T17:09:08Z

I think I forgot to tell people that I finally lost the extra souvenir that I brought home from Switzerland. I finally got fed up with it and did a serious eye-washing (it ended up the best tool for the job was our water-powered tooth flosser substitute... I put it on as low power as it would go and sprayed around. Since that was at the end of an hour or two working on my eye, I couldn't tell if it had done anything, but the next morning, realized it had moved(!) so that was a good sign - that it was actually a particle, and not a scratch or something worse on the eye. So, I washed it out again that day, and the next day, there didn't seem to be anything in it.

I went to my appointment anyway, and the doctor shined a fancy ultraviolet light and some other light with a rather large contraption, and pronounced that it was agitated, not scratched currently, but perhaps had been scratched in the past, and was working on healing itself. He gave me a recommendation for an over-the-counter eye drops, but I haven't bought it, since it seems to have been fixed. I didn't tell him about the tooth flosser trick, but I don't think he was impressed with washing it out, I suppose that is why he makes the big bucks, and wouldn't want to be replaced with things you can do at home...

Comment #1914

2009-03-19T15:47:05Z

We could always get rid of some of the indoor plants (like the devious yucca) and replace them with other stuff (perhaps even on a sill or pots in the metal grate).

Comment #1913

2009-03-19T15:19:38Z

You can try something in pots with florescent lights over it. If you're allowed to put some pots in that open space between the two buildings, that would be something to try. You'd have to ask around to see what kinds of vegetables or herbs grow well in your area in pots. Radishes, lettuces, and hot peppers especially, did fine for us when we were in the city. But we did have a porch sill to put the pots out in the real sun.

Comment #1912

2009-03-19T07:39:32Z

Oooo! What fun! Makes me want to garden . . . um, in our living room? The hall stairs? The concrete entry way? Too bad. :(