I'm pretty sure my Flying Saucer morning glories will bloom tomorrow. I hope they do. They are not the most hardy plant in the world and I put them (oh I could just kick myself) in the Frost Zone of Jardin Skwashy.
So I have had a thing come up a lot and haven't been able to find an answer. First: My sim maxed her gardening skill and wants to plant a money tree. How do I do that? I seen it said something about getting money in the mail and I've never got a bag of money in the mail lol.
The petunia seedlings have nearly doubled in size since we planted them in our new stone-walled flower box earlier during the week. I reckon they’ll be showing a good display before Christmas. We chose ‘Bonanza’. It’s a mixed colour selection which has been around for decades and never fails to please. We used to sell them ourselves when we owned a small garden business over thirty years ago. ...
I just do. There is no place more beautiful or geographically diverse. Plus it's next door to the ocean and it has cliffs and sloping sandy beaches. The water is usually too chilly here to swim comfortably but when we were down south the water was felt wonderful. Oh, and plus plus: Everything blooms all year round. Well, not everything. But an insane number of things. I'm still picking ripe ...
When looking for beans to plant this year, I was late to the party and had no idea what I wanted. Honestly, I think this led to a large portion of the mistakes this year, but learning from success unusual, so I’m counting this as a teaching year. Sounds better that way.
My main criteria when looking for plants was that they not require any extra hardware. We didn’t have the budget for it, and ...
Building out this garden has had a very interested set of unintended consequences. Fortunately, they’ve almost all been good. But I would have never guessed at their diversity or breadth.
The first big one was fencing the yard. While an big expense, we planned for it and managed to get everything done in one long weekend by someone else. I cannot stress enough how much the someone else part of...
Remember me saying I'm trying to do stuff to keep winter from being horrible? I put up a new birdfeeder (holy crap those birds have almost emptied it in a week and it's HUGE!)...and I made a big (3-foot) window box for my bedroom. Thing is, my window only has a 2-inch sill...so we had to go through the major hassle of adding a shelf to turn it into a deeper sill. Still, I like it...the plants ...
The biggest lesson this year was around tomatos. I did so many things wrong, it’s almost impossible to count them. Nearly every step along the way, I made a mistake. Most were recoverable, but it meant that we ended up with a crop of about a dozen tomatos from 16 plants. This is a miserable failure, but still cheaper than buying them at the store.
For next year, I will be trying the following:...
I keep having this urge to canoe up the Rideau Canal. The Erie Canal also looks vaguely intriguing but it's in the US. I wonder, would I drown first or be hacked up by some passing boat's prop?
... classes for the kids. These can be anything from a jewelry making class to a baking class to a class where we take trips to the animal shelter and have pet food drives for them. I used to have a gardening class for the kids I work with, but because of my schoolwork I ended up not having enough time outside of work to prepare the classes, and I had to tell my boss I couldn't do it anymore. I'd ...
