My, um, victory garden…
Amy Grisak over at Living in Season provided some great early-season flower planting tips. Although I know enough about gardening to read the back of a seed packet, I wasn’t entirely sure I had planted the right varieties. Thanks to Amy’s blog, I discovered that most of my choices were good. Yay! (Note: If you really want to be jealous of Amy, check out her herb harvest. The basil in particular looks like something out of a magazine. Hmm, wonder why?)
Earlier this year, I wrote an article on living “green” - in other words, environmentally friendly. The premise of my article was that even people like me can make small changes to become better stewards of our environment. One of the things I learned while researching that article is that I can re-use shredded paper as mulch.
So in the interests of recycling, I ended up with this:
Not pretty, but not a bad way to put those query rejections to good use. (To be honest, I’ve only ever been rejected by email. Those shreds more likely came from last year’s insurance policy.)
On top of the shredded paper, I’ll dump our used coffee grounds. And on top of that, when the plants get a little bigger, I’ll try to lay newspaper around them for weed control. Also not very pretty. (I’ll probably break down and buy some wood chips.)
But it will probably look prettier than bare dirt, which is what I have in the front flowerbed. Poor little portulacas; they’ve survived hail and high winds since I transplanted them from the safe and warm greenhouse out into the cruel, cruel world.
At least the hosta is thriving after I took pity on it and transferrred it to new digs. Actually, what was once one big hosta is now 4 healthy hostas. I was able to split and transplant them because I saw it done on The Victory Garden.
