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Responding to the Needs of Houseplants
Ever since I read Harmonious Environment and How to Grow Fresh Air, I’ve been committed to bringing more plants into our home. There’s only one gigantic glitch: I’m terrible at taking care of them.… Read MoreSeriously, I unintentionally (yet systematically) kill plant after plant that I invite into our house, even when they are supposedly the easiest plants to take care of. It sucks.
However, I am slowly getting better and better. I’ve started to approach my houseplant tasks more like a scientist. I pay more attention to the plants and try to be more responsive to what it is that they seem to need. I’ve realized that I can’t
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Grow Your Own Straweberries
I’m a sucker for kits. There’s just something so appealing about having everything you need in one place with step-by-step directions about how to do it.I got lured by a grow-your-own-strawberries kit when I went to Lowe’s to get the magnetic primer and chalkboard paint for the window project I’m working on. I just have such an urge to plant, plant, plant, but I don’t really know what I’m doing.
I followed the directions as closely as possible, but it looks like crud. Oh well. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
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Tomato Seeds
Hooray! It’s time to start planting seeds (at least in Houston it is…).According to Year Round Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers for Metro Houston, it’s time to plant tomato seeds indoors. I used those expanding peat moss seed growing things. They are fun to watch expand!
Perhaps I should not actually feature my gardening endeavors on this blog, since I have pretty much no idea what I am doing. I try to read books as much as I can, but when those books tell me things I don’t want to hear, then I’m forced to ignore them. For example, apparently, you need to raise tomato seeds under fluorescent lights instead … Read More
