gm! lovers of trees, gardens and green beings of this planet.
My mother loves gardening, which meant that as a young boy I was always around gardening. We've had avocado trees and lime trees in our backyard. Morning glories covering the tool shed, A vegetable patch with carrots, strawberries, rosemary, basil, oregano, lavender and a bunch of other goodies to eat and cook with.
As a non-so-fully evolved man-child, I don't have the privilege of having a lot of gardening space anymore, because I live smack dab in the middle of concrete jungle-land. Yep, downtown. Sure I got this beautiful sunrise this morning,
But only because there was marvelous symphony of ambulance, a police siren and construction site going on, so I had to get up and close the window.
Thankfully, the joy of caring for the chlorophyllic beings of planet Earth is a hobby that can be practiced anywhere on the globe, right? :)
which is why I'm putting together an urban garden of my own.
whoops! basil looks like she needs some water. Guess I don't have mom's green thumb
😄 I'll get on that as soon as I finish my post.
We headed over to the local garden supply store on foot (since we don't own a car anymore) and picked up a slightly larger pot for her.
Here it is:
See? she'll have plenty of room to stretch her roots in here :)
We got 30 lbs of black soil to add to the new pot. It probably needs a little more, but hey, we're on foot, and that's all we could comfortably carry today.
mmmmmmm smells delicious.
Looks lovely too!
We started by giving the smaller pot a few light taps with a hammer to loosen the soil a little bit.
Then, with a firm, but careful tug, we pulled her out of her pot, roots and all, and gently placed her in the new larger pot for her to live in.
There we go!
look at that; she's nice and straight and got plenty of leg room for many months to come. We'll put her in the corner for now. Let's see how she likes it.
The final step in the move is getting some worm tea ready. A few years ago, we started a three tier vermi-compost system in our apartment to put our fruit and vegetable scraps in. It's very easy to set up, maintain and it doesn't give off any odor at all. It basically works like this:
The red wigglers go in the top bin where you put some worm bedding made form peat moss, cardboard, and some regular garden soil. This is where you put fruit and vegetable peels and coffee grinds. Nothing greasy please! I hear this can cause total disaster and funky smell.
I like to burry the food scraps and cover the soil with newspaper and cardboard. We do this about every 30 days.
The worms will quietly go through the food scraps and produce amazing worm castings and worm tea (worm juice?) in the process. This is what I have here:
We like to make a 50/50 mix of worm tea and water and give it to all the plants. They seem to find it yummy. I can tell because they tend to grow nice and healthy with this boost of nutrients :)
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday folks, hope to see some of your gardens
If I can be truly honest.. I do fancy nature... I really do... I spend a lot of time outdoors... But screw the plants... That sunrise my guy👀 fucking gorgeous to say the least.. Pardon the language 😂😂🌅🌅...
The sun glowing through the clouds... Amazing...
Where you from?
yeah, I get up early once in a while.
caught this one from the studio not too long ago. breathtaking, right?
I'm a Florida cat. Decided to move to Guatemala where Bitcoin adoption is happening thanks to our neighbors in El Salvador.
Well you know as they say, early bird catches the worm. In this case the sunrise🌅😍 its gorgeous no doubt at that!!
Oh yeah, now it looks great in the new pot! It was indeed a bit crooked. :D
And well done for that compost system and worm tea!
haha 😄 it was like that for a while.
Thank you! We throw away almost zero waste from fruits and vegetables. We can't give the worms any spicy food like peppers, garlic or citric fruits either. But other than that, they chomp it all up and make amazing compost for our plants :)
That is great, it's a win-win situation! :)
I mostly have just succulents, and they need bad soil hahaha, I mean, more mixed with sand, and rocky soil and the soil I find in the garden. For other plants, I would need something like this amazing compost you are having :)
with all the care you give them these plants will grow really healthy
We try to see what works and move them around. Some plants like a lot of sunlight, others not that much, some need water every day, some less.
It's a bit like meditating to be honest :)