I think I've made it clear that my garden style is very trial and error.
You can draw from that, my garden style is very plant-intensive, involving many trips to the garden center.
I think I have also made it clear that I couldn't wait to get in the garden and start digging.
So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that my funding has been cut off.
Can you believe I was laid off two days after my husband was laid off? No one else can either. Insert your favorite expletive here.
Now is where creative gardening comes in. It's been two weeks exactly since the event. In that time I have managed to clean up everything that could be cleaned up, trim all that needed trimming (and after some nasty freezes in my tropical garden, there was plenty). Now what??
I know I want to go to the garden center and fill out my front bed. But spending our savings on pentas instead of the car payment is crimping my style. So I've been looking for alternative sources of plantings.
We'll start in the kitchen. Potatoes! I have some beautiful Yukon Golds that are sprouting. Bad for eating, but great for the unemployed. Project potato begins!
I also found some seeds in the garden. They were hanging off my African Irises, and while I love those hardy little plants, on any other day I would have simply tossed them into the shrubs and wished them luck. Today is a new day though, and I'm saving them for planting in a nursery type bed. Should be fun to see them pop up.
I'm also looking into some seed purchases. Much cheaper to grow cucumbers from seed than from seedling. Same for petunias.
Let's see where this goes. I always thought people who grew stuff from seed were Serious Gardeners. I could have been right. Or maybe they're just cheap. Either way, I'm taking the plunge!
You can draw from that, my garden style is very plant-intensive, involving many trips to the garden center.
I think I have also made it clear that I couldn't wait to get in the garden and start digging.
So it is with a heavy heart that I announce that my funding has been cut off.
Can you believe I was laid off two days after my husband was laid off? No one else can either. Insert your favorite expletive here.
Now is where creative gardening comes in. It's been two weeks exactly since the event. In that time I have managed to clean up everything that could be cleaned up, trim all that needed trimming (and after some nasty freezes in my tropical garden, there was plenty). Now what??
I know I want to go to the garden center and fill out my front bed. But spending our savings on pentas instead of the car payment is crimping my style. So I've been looking for alternative sources of plantings.
We'll start in the kitchen. Potatoes! I have some beautiful Yukon Golds that are sprouting. Bad for eating, but great for the unemployed. Project potato begins!
I also found some seeds in the garden. They were hanging off my African Irises, and while I love those hardy little plants, on any other day I would have simply tossed them into the shrubs and wished them luck. Today is a new day though, and I'm saving them for planting in a nursery type bed. Should be fun to see them pop up.
I'm also looking into some seed purchases. Much cheaper to grow cucumbers from seed than from seedling. Same for petunias.
Let's see where this goes. I always thought people who grew stuff from seed were Serious Gardeners. I could have been right. Or maybe they're just cheap. Either way, I'm taking the plunge!
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