Friday, August 21, 2009

Plants

When I started my mini-garden this summer, I bought basil, dill, parsley, and cilantro plants. I stuck them in claypots on my windowsill (outside). I watered them daily and all that. They grew, certainly, but not enough to really harvest more than once. And the basil. What trouble it gave me. The leaves started out the beautiful bright green of basil leaves, but slowly slid into a sickly yellow green. Two plants, same thing. I suppose I'll have to do some windowsill herb gardening research.

It surprises me that my plants that did the best were the tiny pots of lavender and chives that I bought from the Target "see Spot save spot". $1 for two little pots that have a weird expanding soil pellet. Both have been transplanted now, and are thriving!

And just as I thought my African violets were goners, all three pots bloomed! Yay.

Hopefully I'll remember to water everybody when I go back to school--exactly ONE MONTH from now! I am so excited! Eeeee! Look for updates then as I will update to avoid real homework.

6 comments:

Steven said...

Hi, Jen!

At first I didn't realize it was you and I thought, "Oh great. My first real blog post and I already attracted a creepy Internet friend." Then I saw your picture and I was like, "Wait a minute..." and I read your posts and I was like, "That's Jen!"

So, the long and short of it is that I'm glad you aren't a creepy Internet friend and I'm glad to know at least somebody I know is reading my blog. :)

Steven said...

(Oh, and congrats on your plants. Especially the African violets. Those are finicky flowers.)

jenomena said...

Sorry to creep you out :-)

Nance said...

The basil issue sounds like too much water or like it's potbound. Just a thought!

jenomena said...

That's what I thought it was too. When I planted new basil, I only put two of the three plants in to see if I could avoid root issues, and I watered less. It might just be too hard to windowsill herb garden!

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