I know that it's only been a week since my last update, but I'm a newbie garden carer and I'm overly excited by the growth that's happening.
Just look at these tomatoes:
They're just shooting up and I love it.
My garlic chives aren't cooperating, however. I'm not sure what's wrong, but every thing I've planted is growing except for the chives. I even bought a new packet of seeds from a different brand and planted those, and those ones aren't growing either.
They're in good soil. They're getting sunlight. They're getting water. But not even the tiniest sprout is sprouting. Which is sad because I loooove garlic chives and I was looking forward to using them to garnish literally -everything-. 😅
Just look at this empty pot -- look at it! It should be full of sprouting chives, instead it's full of nothingness.
😞
I'm not sure when is a good time to start sorting out that basil. Not only did I go overboard with the seeds, but they got slightly scattered during a sudden storm a couple of weeks back and I'll need to deal with them.
⭐️ Fun Fact ⭐️:
Basil is literally the only plant I've ever grown successfully before. But. It only survived and thrived due to a survival-of-the-fittest scenario.
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Chucked a heap of different seeds into the one pot, hoping they would live alongside one another. Obviously their roots fought for space and the basil's was the one who found success. Oh and he was glorious. I ate of his leaves almost every day! Until someone waltzed into the yard and stole him.
Hoping to have a better experience this time, haha.
Here we have some rainbow silverbeet.
And here we have some friendly carrots! Very friendly! 😅
It's all coming together! Except for those blasted garlic chives. I really don't know what's going on with them. 😕
While those delicious morsels are growing out the back, we've started working on the front. I've wanted to plant some pretty flowers on the front verandah since moving in, but we didn't know til recently if we were going to be staying here or not due to the house being up for sale and we're just lowly tenants.
Luckily the new owners are happy with us here, and as such I can now beautify the front verandah! 😁
This is what it looks like at the moment......
Well, part of it. There's an extra garden bit on the other side of the stairs also. And here are a bunch of flowers I'm eyeballing, working out where best to put them:
Thinking of doing some layering, since the flowers range in size from 2m down to 50cm. 🌺🙃
Until next time,
Thanks for stopping by!!! 😄🌿
Surprise Charlie!
All photos in this post are courtesy of me, 