Herbs

I bought a rosemary and peppermint. Planted each of them in pots and placed them in the greenhouse for the time being. I wish I had a way to store rosemary for the winter but so far no luck. They smell so nice! I’ll place the peppermint at The Tea Corner and hopefully there will be some butterflies around.

The slope

There’s a rumor that there will be a stone wall build in the slope, which means that there will be no more slope (I’m all for it) and a little bit more lawn. I thinking a small shrubbery thingy at this new little bit of lawn to create some more privacy because there’s none of that now and a cute little garden gate. And hopefully a small shrubbery-ish area will attract birds.

My day so far…

Went to a garden centre called “Blomsterlandet”, it’s a big chain and they have the popular things but nothing really exciting and the plants are… well they are cheap. There used to be another garden store called “Hortus”, the plants were a little bit more expensive but the quality was much better, now it’s more about quantity and not quality I’m afraid.

I managed to leave the place with this weird looking toad… with a crown on his head, what the F? It’s not my style at all but he has these big eyes and he looked at me like, “Save me!” and I had to have him. He’s called “Prins Padda” which means, Prince Toad (very creative) and I placed him in The Tea Corner. My mom bought a crossed eyed gnome… I find those sorts of things tacky but, oh well.

At the grocery store I bought some pansies for Inka Dude and some Oregano, last year there were lots and lots of butterflies swooping around my other plants and I want more butterflies so I got one more and I planted it by the greenhouse. But by the looks of it I’ll need a peppermint as well, wow!

(picture found here)

A few seeds got planted in pots:
Sunflowers “Magic Roundabout”
Sweetpea “Bijou”
Echinops bannaticus
Echinacea purpurea ”White Swan”

Yesterday I planted a few things as well:
Horned Pansy
Dipsacus fullonum
Aimées Passionflower
Aimées Cardinal Climber Ipomoea × multifida

I have been lazy...

I feel like I’m running behind and today I really need to get something done! There is so much too do. I have a lot of seeds that I need to sow and I think I'll do that today and I have to have a look in my diary and see when I planted the dahlias last year, is it too soon?

Updates and crappy pictures

Popcorn corn: Just because… (I planted my sweet corn just the other day and they looked very different from popcorn). They grow fast and I need to replant them soon. I still don't know where to plant them, not really...

(Corn)

Tomatoes: I like tomato plants because they smell so nice and they don’t give you any trouble. Well, they haven’t produced many tomatoes lately but other than that they are nice plants.

(Tomatoes)

Leek: Growing pretty good but how will these tiny little straws become leek? Guess we just have to wait and see. Don't know where to plant these either... I always do this.

(Leek)

Ginger: Growing kind of slowly but she’s making her way up. She's not much to look at but it's fun. I'll give her a bigger pot and I'll let her be outside during the summer and I'll see how she likes it.

(Ginger)

Basil: I have three pots of basil so I guess I have to make some pasta sauce along with the tomatoes and garlic this summer.

(Basil)

Garlic: I have some garlic that started to sprout (is that the word) and instead of throwing them I planted them in pots indoors so we’ll see what happens when I plant them outside later.

Plans for spring 2010

Most of these are from 2008, not good... there will be more added to the list soon I'm sure.

• Fix the raspberries
• Build bathouses
• Build birdhouses, an owl one too
• Build a compost
• Build a birdbath
• Cut the boxwood
• Cut the buddleia
• Clean up the backyard

I take a picture of these crocuses every spring and the first time it was like one flower and now…

Ooops again…

I can’t find my little note with where I storage what so I don’t know if I dug all of them up or if someone is still down there in the backyard and it’s an awful awful mess there right now so it’s impossible to know. I look around a bit more and hopefully I will find the note, I don't want to leave anyone behind.