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Growing things in pots
I went to Kmart and Big W today to buy some supplies for growing things. I’m sticking to containers at the moment and bought a big pot for a tomato plant and a relatively big box planter, probably for herbs. I’m thinking of getting another big pot for a cucumber plant or two. I also bought potting mix and some coriander seeds. I absolutely love coriander and want to have a good crop of it. Not sure what else I might plant…perhaps some bell peppers and chillies, I think…
I also bought fertiliser for the cherry tomato plants that are slightly more than seedlings and for the future tomato plant or two. I didn’t get any planting done today but plan to get lots done tomorrow. Actually, that’s not correct. I did plant some thyme seedlings in an old box planter. I’ll probably have to replant them because the soil already there is not very nice and probably needs to be replaced. I didn’t come to that conclusion until the seedlings were in though.
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Planting
On Saturday, I spent much of the day mowing the front lawn, then clearing out much of mess on the other side of our driveway. After the winter’s rains, lots of winter grass had grown quite tall and was looking very untidy. I cleared out almost everything and cut the branches on our pin-cushion hakea tree. One might say this tree is a weed because it grew from the seed of one we planted when we first started our garden. The original was beautiful but died quite abruptly one year, leaving heaps of seeds behind.
The current tree has grown rather awkwardly and looked a bit like a gawky teenager, I guess. I have cut it back significantly around the bottom and trimmed off some of the longer, drooping branches that seem to drag it down. It looks much healthier now. Despite it’s gawky appearance, it bloomed quite nicely over the winter, far more than this or the original ever did.
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Hard work in the garden
Thirteen or so years ago when we moved into this house, we did a lot of planting of shrubs and whatnot…one of the plants was an orange honeysuckle plant. The flowers looked really nice. The thing is, I know that it’s not an ideal plant. I remember very well how my parents spent weeks clearing the honeysuckle from along the creek bed that ran behind our house. It was literally choking trees. I’m not quite sure how closely related this variety is, but the flowers are quite similar, aside from the color. We planted two of these shrubs and one of them has turned into a monster while the other one has had rather modest growth over the years.