Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Flower FYI

You all know that when the Paperwhites / Narcissus begin to shoot up they fall over and need to be tamed. If you plant them in a small container or you plant a lot of them, tying them up in a bundle is fine. But, when you don't plant them right on top of each other it may look weird to gather them all together. My large container only has 4 bulbs in it, so they are nowhere near each other.


I thought tying them all together would look ridiculous and detract from the beauty of the flowers. So... I "borrowed" two small dowels from the Mr., cut them in half and used some kitchen twine to secure each sprout to a separate dowel.



Half of a dowel is not quite long enough once the plant grow to their height potential, but it works fairly well. Occasionally I will come out in the morning to find one lying on the tabletop because it grew out of it's plant prison.


I love that I actually found a use for this pretty twine that I bought.

Oh, the Mr. has taken to calling these "Butt Flowers" since they smell so bad. But now that they've fully bloomed the smell has dissipated. 

What do you use to keep tall plant stabilized?

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

We have Looft-off!




I know. You can barely see them. I was just so damned excited that I could see two whole plants that I wanted to share my joy!
The top one is pretty obvious, right? But the bottom one, you have to look reeeaaaallly close at the bottom right of the pot. See it?
Yayyy!! So exciting. I think this is the first thing I have ever grown from a seed.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Loofah-tastic

Did you see this video?



Hilarious! Apparently it's "offensive to women". I think that's ridiculous. For one thing, it's make-believe, and for another, what woman would be stupid enough to get in the tub?

Anywho, I saw a different video on one of my fav blogs, The Art of Doing Stuff. I was intrigued by the potential and decided to attempt growing loofah myself.



The lady who lived in our house before must have be quite a gardener. There are pots strewn about the property. I planted these Saturday, we'll see what happens...

I have like 30 seeds left, does anyone else want to try to grow some loofah?