It's official - I have a newly discovered green thumb. I have been gardening at my boyfriend Andy's house and LOVING IT!!! I have a very lovely veggie/herb garden that I made down the side of his house...
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| My lovely veggie/herb garden |
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| These are my little weeny shoots of Spinach and Swiss Chard! |
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| These are my baby flower shoots - I can't remember what flower, but I'm sure they'll be pretty!!! | | | | | |
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... my garden has mint, rosemary, lavender, tomatoes, lettuce and there's more on the way! I also planted some flowers that are starting to shoot up! Which is very exciting - they feel like my babies!
Today Andy and I spent the whole day in the garden, he chopped down a bunch of trees and I did lots of weeding, raking and prettifying. There's a bunch of shade in Andy's yard so I am moving plants that like shade into the back so that there's something there and it looks pretty. Once Andy had chopped down the trees today (which he did by climbing the
trees and chopping bits off, then chopping them with an axe at the base,
very clever, monkey man!) there was suddenly LIGHT over my veggie
garden!!! Maple trees are beautiful, but they do NOT let any light
through, so now there's light and I am excited to see how everything
grows. Soon we'll rig up the hammocks and it will be all systems go for backyard summer amazingness!
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| The side garden by the shed... |
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| The little garden in the back... More ferns and Lilies of the Valley to come - they grow like weeds here! |
While gardening and cleaning up piles of old leaves and digging today, we found so many juicy worms I wanted to be a fisherman! The biggest one we found would have been a foot long almost and half an inch wide! They were amazing! I put them straight in the garden! I talk to the worms, they are my friends, they do very important things!!!
My other new hobby is making terrariums for inside the house. Again there's not a lot of light inside so I have been making terrariums by buying glass vases and containers from goodwill and buying tiny plants. I use mosses and decorations from around Andy's garden and make them and I love them! Here's my latest four...
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| My first African Violet!!!! This little flower was the first plant I saw on the day I went to the nursery. It reminded me instantly of my Nanny, so I got it! |
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| This was the only other African Violet they had, so of course I had to get it. Now the challenge is to see if I can grow them like Nanny did! |
