We decided to hang outside with the kitties and do some yard work this morning. First we did some laundry!
Then it was time to plant some new flowers we bought at the store yesterday. We got some Forget-Me-Not's and some Impatiens. Im not sure how the Forget-Me-Nots will do, they are an early spring blooming flower...but its worth a shot!
We planted the Forget-Me-Nots and the Impatiens in the large round container...
...and I also planted some bulbs I had inside that my mom gave me last year (again...experimenting...hoping they will grow) in the container with the mystery plants! (I think the mystery plants are some type of squash....?)
We had also planted some cat grass for the kitties last weekend and that is doing pretty well. It's still sparse but I'm going to wait until it thickens up before I let the kitties devour it. One of our cats, named Zero, will probably nom it all in one sitting...he loves cat grass!
The rest of my garden is doing well! I think the plant food helped and I may need to get some more nitrogen rich organic matter to mix in later down the road. Here is a little lettuce seed that is starting to sprout his new leaves!
One more mini project we attempted was to transplant some peppermint herbs we had in a small planter near the side of the house. They survived for almost a year with much neglect (poor guys) and so we decided to give them a new place in the ground. We started digging a hole in the ground to put them in...we are hoping that they spread along the fence...but when we started digging we found out that our soil in the yard is CRAP and really clayey...
We also found some weird mystery alien egg-bulbs in the ground I have no idea what they once were, or are...they were kind of squishy and really weird...
We threw some compost in the hole too to give it some nutrition and began to pull the peppermint out of its container and GEEZE it was one solid mass of roots and soil...it was bad...sorry, no pic of it though, here is the peppermint in its container...
We had to try and break it up a bit to get it in the ground. We'll keep you all updated on the peppermint now too!
Maybe I should change the name of my blog to Arix's Backyard! Any who, thanks for stopping by and we'll have more gardening excitement to come!!
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