About a month ago I got a small tomato plant from a gardening expo I went to. I decided to take care of it, but in my heart I knew it would only die. That's they way most green things go in my life.
I placed my little plant on the window sill in our living room. My little photog Lilly wanted to take some pictures of her baby dolls and inadvertently got my baby tomato plant and her baby sunflower in the picture. Because of her I now have a before and after!
Before:
Zoomed in so you can see the plant:
After:
They got so big I had to transfer containers. They're pretty much ready to go into the ground now. I am so excited that something I tended to didn't die. So of course I signed up for a composting seminar at the rec center since I am a gardener now. Along with the free seminar I got a free composting bin. One of those huge black bins, that according to my friend, looks like Darth Vader.
Zoomed in so you can see the plant:
After:
They got so big I had to transfer containers. They're pretty much ready to go into the ground now. I am so excited that something I tended to didn't die. So of course I signed up for a composting seminar at the rec center since I am a gardener now. Along with the free seminar I got a free composting bin. One of those huge black bins, that according to my friend, looks like Darth Vader. I went to the seminar and learned all about composting. It is really gross and rather filthy. I'm not going to do it. Although now I have this huge Darth Vader composting bin in my garage. Maybe Jim will do it. I am not going to save my egg shells and stir it in with dead leaves, manure, and grass. Just not going to happen. The lady told me one way to test if your compost is ready is if to put in a ziploc for three days. Then open it and it doesn't smell then it's ready. I'm not willing to do that kind of test.
I think I'm more of a window sill gardener. Today I saw a filthy centipede crawling near my tomato plant. That makes me want to get rid of the tomato plant all together.
I guess there is a learning curve with gardening and filthy composting.
4 comments:
The plant looks pretty good!
John let me try to have a garden one year--it was fun until I got bored 2 months later. Maybe if I labeled what I put in the ground...maybe if I planted veggies that I liked....
Katie gave me a tomato plant for mother's day from her school so we decided to try one of those upside-down tomato plant grower containers that we found at BJs...I should plant it soon...it is already showing contempt from being in my care....
wow, what a great compost thing - and it does look like Darth V. What will you do with it?
compost is NOT supposed to smell? i had no idea.
Maybe when you get your house, you will want to garden. Did you see my raised garden I built all by myself? If I can do it, you totally can! My seedling plants didn't get as big as yours are! I had to cheat and by some pre-potted...
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