Seeds and Plants

Wow, it's a been over a week since my last post.  I've made some headway since then.  For starters, I took another trip over to Lowe's and spent $21.59.  I made the decision to go with some plants from a nursery and some seeds for the garden, so I shopped accordingly at the store.  Here are some of the plants I bought...

Buttercrunch, brussel sprouts, and strawberries.

Also I bought some seeds and some seed starting soil.  I used an egg carton to germinate them:

Tomato, sweet pepper, and cucumber (cucumbers I will sow right into the planter) When these grow in, it'll be a much fuller garden.  I transferred the plants I got:



The cucumbers and peppers will also go into this planter; my little vegetable garden.

I planted the strawberries into the old box I found the other day:

So all and all, the garden is starting to come together now.  I had a minor fiasco, which is that the construction workers who are working on my neighbors rooftop deck broke one of her clay pots, so they decided to take my box and use it to put the broken remnants in it.  A friend of Audrey and mine pilfered it back for us late a couple of nights ago.  It seems that they took the box again!!!  It's one of the more ridiculous things I've seen of late.  Oh well; I'm going to confront them about it if I see them.  The project is beginning to start looking like the framework for a garden, and I'm happy about that:

Audrey had the idea of putting a little trellis against the brick wall and growing some vines on there; either some ivy, some beans, or some grapes.  I think this would look beautiful, so we will try to make it happen!

So to recap...

Assets allocated: 

• Plants: brussel sprouts, buttercrunch, strawberries
• Seeds: cucumber, tomato, pepper

Things accomplished:

• Planted all the seeds in egg cartons 
• Transferred all the plants into the planters
• Developed a better sense of what the layout will be on the roof

Amount Spent

• $21.59

Total amount spent so far

• $61.99

A Long Walk in the Dark

Hello!

To catchup from my last post, I need to mention that I was walking around the neighborhood a few days ago when I spotted this beaten up, but very interesting looking crate...

I'm slowly adding to my collection of planters!

I've been wanting to go to our neighborhood Lowe's on 10th st and 2nd av to check out their garden section, and I finally got a chance to check it out tonight.  I took my granny cart because I knew they had better prices on soil, and I wanted to stock up.

I was very much inspired by my trip up there, and it gave me a vision for how the garden is going to pan out.  I saw some little strawberry, tomato, lettuce, and broccoli plants that I knew I wanted to incorporate.  I filled my granny cart with two 25 pound bags of soil, which were $15.20 for two  (twice the soil I got before at half the price).   It was at this point, with my granny cart holding 50 pounds of soil, that I realized two things: 1) I can't take public transportation home.  2) I can't take any of the plants today.  So I ended up trekking all of 20-25 blocks with fifty pounds of soil in tow.  The cart nearly toppled over itself at one point, but I was able to save it.  It was great exercise and a lot of fun to bring it home.  Bringing the bags up four flights and onto the roof was the toughest part though.  I loaded up all the planters I had left with my soil, and they are ready to be planted!  I have a fairly good idea as to what I want to plant now...

So in a couple days I'll make another, less arduous trek to Lowe's.

So to recap...

Assets allocated today: 

• A very weathered crate (the other day)
• 2 bags of soil (totaling at 4 cubic feet) 

Things accomplished:

• Filled all of the remaining planters with soil 
• Developed a good idea of what I want to plant in the remaining planters

Amount Spent today:

• $15.20

Total amount spent so far

• $40.40