Thursday, August 16, 2007
Decision Making Time
Amazingly enough (well, to me) summer is just about over. The only thing I am grateful to leave behind is the intese heat but I certainly do look forward to the Fall. Not only is it my favorite time of year, it is also sowing time for many of the plants I grow & marks the end of hurricane season which, thankfully enough, has been rather calm (knock on wood). The winters here are so mild that starting seeds for early bloom next year is better than ideal. Most of the time my little seedings can spend the entire day outside with no use for lamps during the night, mimicking natures way. I don't have any solid decisions yet as to what I'll be planting but I intend to visit the local stores for some ideas and maybe a few seed packet purchases. I want to brave the world of veggies but with a move out of my apartment an inevitable truth I think that I'll just have to wait, yet again. Hopefully, when the time is right, everything will go very smooth considering all the reading and research I have done on that subject.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Off The Top
Gardening really needs no introduction and because that is what (majority) of this blog will be about I'll just start off with a little about me and a preview of what I have in my container collection. I am 24 and currently enrolled in a community college actively pursuing my career in... duntdundun - general studies. I have no idea what I'm going to school for but everyone keeps telling me that the point is... I'm going. I took a 5 year hiatus and that got me no where - as hiatuses usually do, so I got off my tookus and got back in school. I'm willing to bet that a short stint back in the classroom will clarify my surroundings and reveal what I'm really good at. Well, besides gardening *wink wink.
That's right, I have a container collection as most apartment dwellers do. That's not to say I am any better or worse than those with a plot - under the right circumstances and with the right care, dedication and - most importantly - time, I imagine you could grow anything in a container. What started out as a hobby has slowly crept its way into an "almost" obsession. Indeed, there is a thin line between a full blown obsession and an "almost" obsession but I'll save that for a later discussion.
With this blog I hope to chart progress and meet other people with this love that I can share with and learn from, not just in gardening but in an all around general kinda way. Pretty soon it will be seed sowing time and I intend to use up the rest of what's in my collection so that I have a really good excuse to build it back up again. My collection has grown substatially in the past few months and I intend to take a small break from adding to it for a short while, especially with winter looming overhead and my expectations of moving, but for now everyone is thriving except those "true" annuals that have done their thing and have now been cast from whence they came - back to the Earth. To name a few of my more prized possessions I have a Bird of Paradise, a Chinese Hat Plant, a Hidden Ginger Lily, A CandleStick Bush, A RedBird Cactus aka Devil's Backbone, a very lovely Hindu Rope & A Corkscrew Vine that I fully expect to bloom, next year.
There will be pictures-a-plenty as I map my way through my gardening adventure, not just for visual aesthetics but for resources and references for those that take the time to read what I've got goin on.
That's right, I have a container collection as most apartment dwellers do. That's not to say I am any better or worse than those with a plot - under the right circumstances and with the right care, dedication and - most importantly - time, I imagine you could grow anything in a container. What started out as a hobby has slowly crept its way into an "almost" obsession. Indeed, there is a thin line between a full blown obsession and an "almost" obsession but I'll save that for a later discussion.
With this blog I hope to chart progress and meet other people with this love that I can share with and learn from, not just in gardening but in an all around general kinda way. Pretty soon it will be seed sowing time and I intend to use up the rest of what's in my collection so that I have a really good excuse to build it back up again. My collection has grown substatially in the past few months and I intend to take a small break from adding to it for a short while, especially with winter looming overhead and my expectations of moving, but for now everyone is thriving except those "true" annuals that have done their thing and have now been cast from whence they came - back to the Earth. To name a few of my more prized possessions I have a Bird of Paradise, a Chinese Hat Plant, a Hidden Ginger Lily, A CandleStick Bush, A RedBird Cactus aka Devil's Backbone, a very lovely Hindu Rope & A Corkscrew Vine that I fully expect to bloom, next year.
There will be pictures-a-plenty as I map my way through my gardening adventure, not just for visual aesthetics but for resources and references for those that take the time to read what I've got goin on.
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About Me
- Gardenerd
- I have been called the "wits wit" but under no direction, it happens completely at random (even to me). I can be funny, I can be serious & I can display all of the emotions generalized with human behavior - just like you. I'm not very articulate when it comes to explaining "who I am." There are so many different things that define my personality that I'm afraid as far as intricacies go, your better off meeting me in person and feeling out those crevices for yourself. Me sitting here trying to explain myself is like farting in the wind -- it's pointless unless someone smells it.
