Porch update

[magid]

Hrafn gave me some fish remains from her share, so I got more plants to put over them. This morning I repotted them, using all the containers I'd brought up from the basement.

This is the view from the porch door.


From left to right: two nasturtiums, six basil, eight marigolds above, chives, shiso (the tallish one with large reddish leaves, bought on a whim because I'd seen the leaves mentioned in a recipe for pickling ume plums (which are really a kind of apricot, apparently), but I'd like to find other uses as well), a jade plant lurking behind that, another pot of chives in front of an indeterminate tomato (with one fruit growing on it already), silver thyme and Greek oregano and tricolor sage in front of a Sweet Million tomato (I just noticed green tomatoes on it this morning!), six jalapeno peppers, an unseeable-from-this-angle rosemary, French lavender, and hanging above some white mint. Also not seen: four more marigolds by the door, which would be below the chair in the bottom right.

I used up all the fish bits as well as all the potting soil, though I have a bit of compost left. Given how critters might want to dig up the fish bits, I not only made sure they were securely covered in dirt and/or compost, I also sprinkled some cayenne over the surface. I hope it will be enough.

I'm not sure what else I'd like to grow this year; I still have some containers I could bring up, though I'd rather find larger ones (less frequent watering worries (though I'm still going to have to figure out how I'll be dealing with it when I'm away this summer; a perennial question (heh) I've not spent enough time considering in years past)).

Comments

[currentlee.livejournal.com]

my plants are not nearly so numerous or doing so well.
i think the grand garden plans are probably postponed until next summer...

[magid.livejournal.com]

Most of these are from Russo's in the last two weeks or so, so it's mostly thanks to them that they look decent.

It's hard to get a garden started (even with the smallness of what I need to do for just a porch, some years I fail).

[megmuck.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It feels like it's a bit sparse still. Or maybe it's just all the neighbor's siding in the background making me want more green green green.

Plus in my I-win-the-lottery dream of reconfiguring the porch, I'll put a structure up the blank wall (off the left side of the photo, so I can hang plants all the way up. And have a fold-down-able roof over part of it, so I could sit out more easily in the rain. And a very very very tiny pony :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Very cool to see your porch!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just got another hot pepper today: I couldn't resist a variety called Pretty in Purple, an ornamental with purple ripening-to-red peppers, and green-and-purple variegated leaves.