The Morning Glories finally got too big for the seed starter so I pricked them out and potted them on and so far they are doing really well! The next bunch sprang up over today and will need to be potted on in only a few days, it looks like I am going to get seven healthy plants out of this first batch! That was much more than I hoped for I was going to consider myself lucky if I got one, but they really weren't as hard to start as everyone says they are. The cilantro is almost all up now and the cumin all burst out today, that one one seedling I kept calling cumin, I am pretty sure that is actually the one of the jalapeños, I am pretty sure we mixed up the labels!
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| these are cumin I'm pretty sure |
The weather is lovely again if maybe slightly warmer than I'd like for May, mid 80s (29 C) but it's supposed to drop into the mid 70s (mid 20s C) for the rest of the week. So this earlier this afternoon I thought I would just pop down to the garden center to look at seeds, like you do. I walked through looking at the veg thinking I might also replace the watermelons as every one of them not eaten by squirrels all flopped over and died.
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I couldn't resist taking a
photo of one of the bearded
irises at the garden center |
I think it was the cold snap, I should have put them indoors and it looked as though we weren't the only ones to suffer losses as there wasn't a single decent watermelons left to buy at the garden center, they were all very sad looking or dead.
So I looked around and found some bush pickle cucumbers and I've always wanted to make pickles and the label
said they worked well in small gardens and containers which sounds much
more feasible on a deck then watermelons anyway. So I grabbed a pack and wandered over to the herbs only meaning to look but then realized I needed some spearmint, I'm not sure why I decided that spearmint was the right no the
only mint for mojito flavored infused water but I did so a healthy looking spearmint joined the cucumbers.
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| Bush Pickle cucumbers |
Now at this point I almost bought a miniature rose. I loooove roses, when I was growing up my parents had quite an impressive rose garden, but I have never once in my life managed to keep a mini rose alive. I don't know what it is about them but I haven't been able to grow them. Still maybe I'll get one next paycheck and we'll see what happens, the definition of insanity nonwithstanding....
I did actually eventually make it to the seed section, someone had recommended I get those little stubby carrots that are round like radishes that are perfect for container gardening but they didn't have any seeds for those.
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| Spearmint |
But then I saw the dill seeds and it became obvious that I needed to grow dill if I wanted to make pickles! Our original dill didn't make it, it was too damaged before we got it to ever recover and besides we are going to need a lot of dill for the pickles so growing it from seed seems like the best idea. I sowed them in the container as I discovered dill does not like to be transplanted. It's warm enough now that I can leave them outside and they should germinate just fine, dill's like a weed it grows quickly and easily and like mint it's best contained so it doesn't take over, happily not a problem in a container garden :)
