5:17pm, 64°F, overcast

I started today off (well, sort of, I guess it was already 11am) by planting carrots at my boyfriend’s place. They aren’t really great for containers since they need room to grow downwards, but he had a patch o’ dirt that seemed to be free of most things. He’s out towards the coast, [...]

8:25am, 73°F, overcast
I haven’t posted any morning glory photos yet! Last year, my blog pretty much became nothing but them. Of course, I don’t yet have any flowering, which is part of it. So far, only small seedlings… but I have doubt that they’ll be in bloom in no time!

I really love morning glories most [...]

7:59am, 70°F, Sunny
Lettuce and Komatsuna seedlings are coming along. I’ve also seed a lot of other seedlings– more lemon balm, I think, for one, and also morning glories, hooray! Sometimes they can be slow to sprout since I don’t bother to soak & nick the seeds, but I think that as long as squirrels keep [...]

10:12pm, 74°F, Fair
First off, I am absolutely loving this warmer weather. Today, working out in the garden center at my job, I was actually almost too warm, but that was fine by me! And then I ate ice cream with my coworker which made it even better. But that’s besides the point.
I meant to post [...]

9:18pm, 58°F, Cloudy
I had a busy weekend, and then today I worked a 9 hour day, so there really hasn’t been too much going on in balcony-land. However, a quick look earlier revealed some seedlings coming up in the pot with the lettuce and komatsuna seeds. Fingers crossed that it is, indeed, one of the [...]

6:03pm, 53°F, Rainy
This blog has spent a good many months severely neglected. My plants only fared slightly better.
But it is spring again, and I’m back to work at the garden center, surrounded by plants all day, which is pretty inspiring. And so, I’m kicking this blog back up onto its feet! Woo! And I’m kicking [...]

I’d had a busy weekend, which meant I hadn’t been around to a) Spend a lot of time on the balcony and b) Update this, sorry! But today, I had a nice surprise!
I went outside briefly before work. I glanced over at the hanging basket, where I’d transplanted the Sun Smile trailing variety of morning [...]

8:05am, 77°F, plants are outside
I realized that I’ve been focusing a lot on my edibles, but not so much on my flowers. Oops, sorry about that! Not that muchs is really in bloom at the moment, but still. Though, it also made me realize that a good number of my pots are edible things, at [...]

3:40pm, 73°F, plants are outside.
First off, exciting news– I was chosen to host a Home Farming party over on Gather. They’re supplying some Triscuits (sponsor of this venture, I believe) and I host a gardening-themed party which is then judged on adherence to the theme, originality and creativity based on a photo essay I post [...]

8:15am, 50°F, rainy. Plants are outside.
Today is an icky, rainy day and I don’t want to go to work. Working in a garden center is no fun when the weather is crappy– there is only so much stuff you can find to do inside. Bleh. But I’m hoping this rain will be good for all [...]