Can see the great need to take and keep your notes @sagescrub.
I was thinking that as these seeds take extra time under the different conditions, maybe they'll be all the hardier for it?
I've never had a valerian plant ~ Wish you could come to our organic farmers market. ♥︎♥︎⚖️♥︎♥︎
Yeah! Notes can be a bother, but once in a while they come in really handy :) I like that way of thinking about the plants' hardiness.. i think you may be onto something there! They all have unique "upbringings". Too bad.. it would be fun to visit Oz sometime one day, but I think that if I can sprout Valerian seeds, that means you can too!
I've never taken notes ~ Think I REALLY need to though. In some ways, Steemit has become my notebook for my artwork. But that's different again.
I purchased a kit greenhouse a few years ago at the Flower Show in Melbourne ~ Which is the biggest garden trade show in Oz. But I haven't set it up yet. Something else on the 'to do' list as I'd love to start sprouting my own seeds.
Ah, but now you have me thinking 🌼 🌼⚖️🌼🌼
I am not a bit notetaker in general. I mainly find myself taking gardening notes to keep track of where/when I planted what because inevitably I will forget, no matter how sure I am at the time that I will have no problem remembering. LOL! I sometimes jot down insights/observations that might come in handy later.
Kit greenhouse sounds very exciting! Maybe this will be the year ;) What are you growing this year?
At the moment, I'm mainly just preparing another huge compost pile. Need to get some more chicken wire to line it, then fill it with all the leaves that didn't breakdown in the last compost.
My compost heaps have been mainly in response to cleaning up after a Brush Turkey who built his mound in our backyard. Has been A LOT of work tidying up after him. He scrapped off every square inch of mulch accumulated from clippings etc over the last 10 years ~ As well as all the topsoil in the process. So it's been a difficult summer just keeping everything alive.
BUT he did leave us with a great compost pile, that can be used to plant out, just as soon as the summer heat eases. Mainly salad greens: lettuces, chicory, rocket, silver beet, kale and pawpaw just for the leaves until the winter frost kills them.
My pride and joy at the moment is a mango tree that grew from vegie scraps planted into the ground about 7 years ago, which had fruit for the first time. There were about 20 budding mangoes to start with, but most dropped off, now only 4 remain: still green, but reasonably sized mangoes.
Another pride and joy is a grapevine with about 5 BEAUTIFUL bunches of grapes, ripening now ~ Last year the birds ate them, so watching them more closely now.
Yes, I think it's time to set the greenhouse up. The drawback is that we're on rented property and at some stage, I'll have to take it down, which is why I've been a bit reluctant to set it up. BUT have to live and plant for now and have faith that the Universe will take care of us. ♥︎♥︎⚖️♥︎♥︎
Ooh compost! That sounds like a worthwhile chore. I am really happy to hear about your success with the young mangos and grape vines :) It is so precious to savor the first fruits and such a contrast to the abundance that will be in the years to come. How beautiful that you are planting trees and perennials even though you are renting. That is a great outlook and very unselfish to be planting trees on someone else's property :) Very wise @allyinspirit, live now and plant now because after all, tomorrow is now.