Goshdarnit, [livejournal.com profile] deathscytheheck, I just carried 40 pounds of dirt a mile uphill both ways yesterday and NOW I have to go get more!

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Also, my foxglove sprouted today. I'm incredibly happy, because it's supposed to be planted at the end of the season so it can sit around an think for a while, I guess, so I didn't expect it to come up. But now I will sing bits of the Hazards of Love to it to make it happy.

I promise eventually all this garden-related spam will trickle off, once everything is outside and it becomes a chore to water the ridiculous number of plants I will no doubt have if all these seeds come up. Three kinds of beans, onions, peas, a billion types of tomatoes, various and sundry greens, beets, carrots, mint, lemon balm, basil, poppies, foxglove, sunflowers... ... I think maybe I have a problem. But I can quit planting things any time. Really.

By mid-summer, I think I'll invite everyone over for salad. Which I promise won't contain foxglove.

Edit: ... I wonder how my landlord would feel about a cranberry bog.

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YAAAAAAAAAY! I'm so glad you liked it! I had way too much fun in the gift shop and the hippo had your name all over it. That pic is adorable! ♥
I'm really happy it cheered you up.

And never stop posting the garden spam, because I definitely won't and I need the company. PORCH GARDENS FTW! I demand pictures and updates. IT'S YOUR ELYSIA!
My greens are going crazy, it's kind of scary. I might have to make salad with some of them soon just to make some room.

You... realize those were cranberry BEANS, right? lol
(the seeds were good choices?)

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Speaking of porch spam, I don't think I've seen any pictures of yours. You should fix this. (-;

I definitely dropped too many greens into one of my pots, so I'm going to be eating a lot of sprouts so other things have room to grow. Darn.

And yes, I know they were beans, but a cranberry bog out back just seems like the next logical step in things. ^_^ The seeds were excellent choices, but I am going to have to pawn tiny tomato plants off on so many people soon, or else risk drowning in them. Remind me next time I do this not to start things in small containers, because I managed not to transplant anything into my big pots and just planted new stuff instead.

By the way, did you find any hanging baskets? I'm having a super-hard time finding some that aren't wrought-iron-and-moss and expensive.

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I really do need to picspam my garden all over LJ, I know.

I did the same thing, and I should really start weeding things out, but it's just so HARD. Grr.

Hahaha cranberry bog, if only. I think I have no less than twenty different tomato plants out there in different varieties and stages of growth. It's... ridiculous. I just couldn't do the culling. LE SIGH.

Um, I actually found some wire and coconut fiber ones for about... $3.99 each I think? Or was it $2.99? Idk. I also have a couple wrought iron ones with the coconut fiber that weren't too bad. I know I haven't spent more than ten bucks on one. And I have something like eight of them hanging out there. I also know that getting buckets and poking holes in the bottoms and hanging them on bits of Home Depot chain works just as well. I had to get chain, anyway, since they would have been too close to the rafters for sun if they weren't lowered.
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