Gardening!
Well, I left most of the summer and my garden was horribly neglected. I’ve been poking and prodding it since I got back, weeding and reviving, and here are the re-beginnings of the growing. I planted a bunch of seeds with no expectation of them growing because it has been so hot, but within only a few days they were already sprouting!
- Carrot Seedlings
- Zucchini Seedlings
- Spinach Seedlings
My Pepper plants were really the only things that survived the summer without much effort needed to revive them. They’re producing tiny little peppers that are about 2 inches long right now.
- Baby Pepper
My basil died a horrible, tragic death while I was away and my Dad gave me a few of his little basil plants. They’re doing well, but I can’t wait for them to get huge! My last plant was about a foot and a half tall and had giant leaves. My strawberry plant, too, which was producing fruit, started shriveling up, but I saved it and now it has a few tiny new leaves. Hang on, little strawberry plant!
Basil
Strawberries
I got an aloe plant from the local wildlife center- they were selling them for $2. Hopefully I won’t ever burn myself because this plant is too cute to cut up.
Aloe
This is the part of my garden with the peppers, eggplant and new baby seeds.
Portion of my Garden
This is Bob, my boyfriend’s tomato plant. He dug it up when he was moving houses and showed up at my house in the middle of the night with it and scared the bejezus out of me. Bob isn’t doing so good, but I will try to save him.
Tomato
Sempervivum
Oregano
I had to put the catnip in a hanging basket because my outdoor kitty, Notch, and the other neighborhood cats liked it a little too much and ate most of it.
Catnip Plant
My Dad gave me this plant. It blooms pretty reddish flowers in December! We’ve had these plants around my house my whole life, and now I have my own house and my own Christmas Cactus.
Christmas Cactus from my Dad
Unknown Plant
This begonia also made it through the summer without looking neglected. I am impressed.
Begonia
Wind Chime
Hello Fall!
It has finally gotten cooler out- and even when its 80 degrees, it still feels cool because its been so disgustingly hot here. But it was 66 out when I left for class this morning, and it definitely feels like fall. The mosquitoes are leaving and I can sit outside again! Its nice and breezy and not so humid. <3 I wish that the leaves would change colors and fall off of the trees here, but I guess that’s just how the southern coast is.
- (Dress, Vintage; Shoes, Dr Martins)
I’ve had these boots for a year now and I never wear them, partially because they’re too hot for the summer, and partially because they’re terrible to break in. I’m considering running them over with my car a few times.
- My Plants
I’ve been growing some plants, and they’re doing well now that I’ve moved them into the back yard. There is some basil and spinach and other things- I throw all my seeds into a big planter and let them grow as they please so I’m not sure what the little buds are yet. Some animal has been digging in the planter, though, and I think it might be my cat, but I’m not sure. I’m really annoyed about it, and I think I’m going to have to find a screen to put over it.
