This weekend, Mouse:1. Took stuff out of the garden: spurge, grass, weeds, weird viney ground-cover with purple flowers that looks pretty but chokes everything else out, broken glass, bottle caps, typewriter cartridge, cigarette packet, dead leaves.
2. Found stuff in the garden: violets (maybe viola, technically), previously undiscovered azalea bush, possible day lilies.
3. Put stuff in the garden: salvia, columbines, lupines, marigolds, dahlias, zinnias, money plants, poppies.
4. Mulched and watered stuff in the garden.
5. Started seeds on her porch, some of them in fiber-pots.*
6. Planted three kinds of tomatoes and some serrano peppers in big big containers, in spite of what happened last year.**
7. Realized that her landlady might tear up some of the flower seed to put in a new tree, but decided, after deliberation, that this would beat looking at the dead magnolia tree for another year.
* I still don't understand this whole fiber-pot thing.
** Last year, the tomatoes were decimated by ants who made a hill in their roots, squirrels who stole all their fruit, and whiteflies that killed them. But this summer I won't be out of town nearly as much, so I BELIEVE in tomatoes. Plus we're getting chicken wire.
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What do you not understand about fiber pots, sweet?
Do you just stick the pots right in the garden? You don't transplant out? Will they show, or will they go away?
For small seedlings, they say you can plant them, but I take them out of the fiber pot to make it easier for them to root. I just plant larger plants in the pots directly into the soil, where they'll start to break down. They're underground, so won't show. Tah-dah!
Chicken wire works miracles.
I like the fiber pots because I am lazy. Plop them in and you're done!
Ya Mouse! Most excellent productivity.
Photos of the first tomato, please!
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