for your VINformation

I tried to clean up my garden as well as I could.

But as my brilliant niece pointed out it is Fall.

I didn’t expect it to last for ever and add to the fact I really didn’t give it any attention all month and the barrel it self actually fell apart and now is missing a bunch of slats that I think next year I may have to get some other container to cultivate.

I found these lovely purple flowers today:

I hadn’t noticed them before, they are so tiny…

Next year, I planting Basil Oregano and Parsley – I want fresh herbs.

Destroyed!

The barrel is absolutely dripping with flowers, but I gotta tell you, if I don’t water this baby every day it droops like a pair of 95 year old boobs…

I took some close-up shots that I posted here – enjoy!

The bucket is nearly dripping with greenery – a few blooms here and there:

It looks like a big salad to me…

A full week of rain has produced another flower! This time it’s purple…

Shown actual size…

I’ve got my first bloom!

The package did say "blooms in six weeks."

My first bloom! They may be tiny but they’re mine!

Wow! A lot of growth between week four and week five! I still have that nasty bald spot due to the squirrels – I even caught one there this morning, I dug out his nuts and threw them in the street!

They still look like weeds to me, but in a few more weeks I expect to be able to pick a lovely bouquet of wild flowers that I can then weave intoa headdress and wear around the house…

Moving along at a nice pace – the problem, aside from the squirrel issue, I have no idea if what growing is going to tuurn into flowers or weeds…at this point, it all looks the same!

All the rain is helping my garden grow quickly. Just three weeks on and we’re showing a nice even growth throughout the entire garden.

I wonder what they will bloom into?

There are so many tiny green sprouts. I wonder what they’ll turn into? Still having some squirll isues – the little puffy-tailed rats!

Hard to see from this far away, but there are some sprouts sprouting! See below for a close-up – my guess, 6-8 weeks ’til blooming! I’m sure all the rain this week as been a big help. There was a little animal vandalism, the squirrels love using my garden as a nut hiding-place…

As Spring is finally springing, I’ve decided to tend to my garden again. This year, I bought this roll-out garden that within 20-30 days should produce a bucket full of wildflowers!

Of course, there are rules – it must never be dry! and since I don’t have a hose or even an outdoor water spigot , it’s all about lugging buckets and buckets of water from the kitchen sink – I need to invest in a watering can…

Once a week, on Monday, I’ll be sharing it’s growth progress

Day One

I was enjoying the Spring weather outside – pulling weeds and sweeping up the front, it may not be my property, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help with it’s upkeep, I do have to look at it everyday after all – when I looked next door and saw that my neighbors’ flowers were looking a bit raggedy…I should’ve taken a picture of the "before" – I decided to clean it up as well.

Here’s the after:

All the pretty purple flowers were overgrown at the far end, looking as if they needed a little breathing room; the entire run was full of dead plants and weeds. I’ve known my next door neighbors for 14 years, the parents moved away a few years ago, leaving the son alone and he really doesn’t take care of the property like they did – I figured he could use a helping hand…plus I got 4 activity points out of it!

This is probably the last picture of my "garden" that y’all’re gonna see until I get back from shooting 5 Takes.

The Wave put the OOHH in Petunia

Speaking of 5  Takes, I just got really cool news today that I don’t think I can share with you just yet, and until I’m in Latinoamerica, I ain’t doin’ nothin’ that could possibly screw that up.