So, in my ongoing war for sanity, waged against the endless brown, dry windiness that is the Mojave Desert, I am trying to grow plants again.
I do not have my mother's brown thumb (Love you, Mom!). She really only has luck with ivy, weeds, and mint. You know, those plants that you cannot kill. I do not have that type of track record. I had plants in SC. I had plants in VA. I had a practically INVINCIBLE kalanchoe from my freshman Botany class in college. That thing was over 6 years old when it went. I'd had to re-pot it twice because it had grown so much. And then the cross-country move killed it. I had a very healthy African violet too (until Joey knocked it off its shelf and are all the leaves...). And I had a relatively healthy philodendron which couldn't be watered fast enough when we moved out to the desert.
All of this greenery ended when I moved to the desert. I couldn't keep the plants watered enough to survive out here. So, I gave up for a while. The job just took too much time.
But, now that I have time again, it's time for a change. I am tired of a house with no plants. I want to grow herbs again. Add to that, I was seriously jealous of my sister's window box/balcony of plants last year when we visited. Need basil? Step out onto the patio and clip some! A good dose of sibling jealousy will get anything stirring again, right? ;)
The final straw came Thursday when I was running errands in Town and ran to Target. They have their little $1 bins at the front, right, and since this is the changing of the bin contents, the last round of stuff was 50% off. That includes all the little gardening goodies they had. So, I invested all of $2.50 and picked up two types of basil, parsley, pepper plant, and a tomato plant. I don't know how many (if any) will survive, but I am giving it a shot! And if they all dry out, well, I'm only out $2.50, right?
So, I got them potted today, and here they are, all lined up on the window sill in the kitchen. That window gets sunshine, but not the ant-under-the-magnifying-glass type of sunshine we get on the other side of the house. (Yeah, we really don't have a shady window here in the desert.) Wish these little guys luck!
I do not have my mother's brown thumb (Love you, Mom!). She really only has luck with ivy, weeds, and mint. You know, those plants that you cannot kill. I do not have that type of track record. I had plants in SC. I had plants in VA. I had a practically INVINCIBLE kalanchoe from my freshman Botany class in college. That thing was over 6 years old when it went. I'd had to re-pot it twice because it had grown so much. And then the cross-country move killed it. I had a very healthy African violet too (until Joey knocked it off its shelf and are all the leaves...). And I had a relatively healthy philodendron which couldn't be watered fast enough when we moved out to the desert.
All of this greenery ended when I moved to the desert. I couldn't keep the plants watered enough to survive out here. So, I gave up for a while. The job just took too much time.
But, now that I have time again, it's time for a change. I am tired of a house with no plants. I want to grow herbs again. Add to that, I was seriously jealous of my sister's window box/balcony of plants last year when we visited. Need basil? Step out onto the patio and clip some! A good dose of sibling jealousy will get anything stirring again, right? ;)
The final straw came Thursday when I was running errands in Town and ran to Target. They have their little $1 bins at the front, right, and since this is the changing of the bin contents, the last round of stuff was 50% off. That includes all the little gardening goodies they had. So, I invested all of $2.50 and picked up two types of basil, parsley, pepper plant, and a tomato plant. I don't know how many (if any) will survive, but I am giving it a shot! And if they all dry out, well, I'm only out $2.50, right?
So, I got them potted today, and here they are, all lined up on the window sill in the kitchen. That window gets sunshine, but not the ant-under-the-magnifying-glass type of sunshine we get on the other side of the house. (Yeah, we really don't have a shady window here in the desert.) Wish these little guys luck!
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