Tomatoes and strawberry spinach repotted, basil and spring onions sown. Bit of general maintenance. I was tired before I started, owing to the lack of sleep, and now I'm especially tired.
After spending nearly 20 years in an apartment, being in a house with a yard is so weird. Like, how do you actually plant things in the ground? I get how to use pots and window boxes and raised beds, but like… in the shitty dirt in my front yard? Am I supposed to use potting soil? Fertilizer? Just stick the plant in the ground and hope? #gardening#plants#yardwork#gardens#planting
@pseudonymsupreme Videos on YouTube are your friend. And, yes. You have to prepare the soil. I had to rototill my parents' yard for lawn and help create flower beds. It's seasonal and never-ending. You need to weed. Gardens are work to get started, and once started, need attention or bugs and weeds will take care of your pretty plants, lol.
Sunscreen is your friend. Also good gloves and a sun hat. Get shoes for the garden only. Talk to a local nursery about soil prep. Very helpful. Slow is okay
cold frame update: left the lid off while i was away this weekend and there was a lake in the bottom, lol. i took the plants out while i drained this out. looks like they've been loving the weather.
#Euphorbia characias ssp wulfenii, Wulfen's #Spurge. This grows all over Vancouver - it's drought tolerant, evergreen, and rugged. The flowers smell like rotting meat to attract flies, as here.
Alt: 3 views of the flower clusters, large groups of dramatic yellow-green against cool blue-green foliage. Each floret has three tiny buds that open, sequentially, into acid-yellow flowers.
most of my #gardening efforts go towards veggies & chestnut seedlings, but my front yard is directly adjacent to the primary car traffic artery in the area for the last 50 years, making me reluctant to grow food there. So instead I am going all out with tulips & mostly perennial flowers, and it is a JOY. I am missing the main tulip season this year because I am in Berlin, but my partner sent me a tulip report today, and just look at my babies they are so pretty! SO PRETTY! I mean look!