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