Sunday Bits #67 (just gardening bits)
- themarigoldgc
- Feb 25, 2024
- 5 min read
Well, happy Sunday! Did you know that spring is only 23 days away? It is a bit earlier (date wise) this year because it's a leap year. Just knowing it is around the corner makes this upcoming cold snap more bearable, eh?
I've been repotting my handful of indoor plants and also started feeding them again in February. With the longer days and all that goodness, they have already started putting on new leaves and more growth. I can hardly wait for blooms on my mom's 50 year old hibiscus.
I lost a stem off of my lovely tradescantia several weeks ago. I stuck it in water, assuming that it would make new roots, as one tends to do. It took forever, many weeks to make two tiny root hairs. I then googled it up and saw that all you have to do is stick it in soil. No rooting hormone required, nothing, just pop it into the soil. So I did. It works great. I then clipped off a few more pieces and stuck them in the pots, too, to use as a colourful accent plant in my hanging baskets this summer. Is this not one of the loveliest plants you have ever seen? It's an oldie but a goodie, does not get enough love, imho.
After this cold snap is over, I will start emptying out the greenhouse (we use it for storage in winter), clean it all up, give it a wash down, get it ready for spring plants. March is the perfect time to start!
Gardening Bits
I have a bunch of great garden related reads for you this week! These first two from BBC Gardener's world might ask you to become a member before you can read them. You totally should do so. It is free and opens up all the timely tips for you to read. Especially handy if you live on the west coast, with similar weather.
The first one is the best plants for a bathroom. I am interested in these, thinking that a Monstera would be lovely in mine, maybe a peace lily, too. The second one is 30 small garden ideas, love these ideas!
How to grow celery. I have grown my own celery for many years and find it just about the easiest veggie to grow of them all. Start the seeds on bottom heat in January. Transplant into larger cells in March, when it has some true leaves. Plant in the garden in May, water deeply twice a week, harvest stalks as needed. If you want grocery store like thick stalks, I have always had really great luck with Tall Utah and Tango. Both are fabulous. It is not too late to start from seed now, but hurry! Or pick up a 6 pack at the nursery ; )
The best flowers for the bees. This was a great read.
What to do in that side yard. I love the gates, putting a lovely gate in this summer.
Why no-till gardening? I've now been no-till gardening for a good dozen years or more, will never go back. Sceptic? Do your own trials... I did!
I am all about companion planting with flowers for pest control in your food garden. Here are 6 flowers for grow in your veggie garden from another blogger.
These 21 drought tolerant perennials. They will need regular water the first year but when established are very drought tolerant. I only water when they wilt.
This cute allotment garden and cottage is my muse, the inspiration for my backyard potager at this new house. Is in the middle of Gothenburg city (Göteborg) which makes my head whirl as I went to school in that very same city a long, long time ago. Check out the cute cottage and lovely garden here. Follow Elin on Instagram for gorgeous summertime settings.
This is another one of my most favourite Instagram gardens. Love the pollinator strip.
What else can I tell you?
We went to the Home& Garden Show in Calgary the other day, and to Cactus Club and Ikea at the same time, of course. You cannot go to Calgary and not hit Ikea, right? The show was a bit of a bust. Very little garden related except hot tubs and pergolas, but was still a good time. Nice to wander about and listen to the speakers, as well.
The crispy tofu bowl at the Cactus Club is just so darned good, I can hardly wait to go back again. Summer was not out at Ikea yet, sadly, I was so hoping! Ah well, reason to go back again at a later date. I did pick up 2 raw pine tables to distress and paint up for the shop though.
I just love that Ikea is bringing back the solid wood again, so that we can do whatever we want to it. Like those beds I told you about, the ones we bought for the grandies. Is funny, when I was in my second apartment, my whole living room was plain Ikea pine furniture. I did nothing to it! No paint, no stain, just left it as is. Now I cannot wait to slap paint on these two tables.
These are the colours that caught my eye. If you like one of the styles but not the colour, just click on it and it will offer up others for you to choose from : )
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With regards to the shop out back... it is coming along very nicely. We should be ready for painting the interior this coming week, then setting up shelving and stuff, to make it usable for starting seeds and hopefully start up the how-to-grow workshops in April.
I don't want to get too excited yet as this she-shed has been a long time coming, don't want to get my hopes up, but it is looking promising! So, if you are in the area and looking for some small gardening workshops, they are coming soon (I hope!).
That is it for this week. Not one recipe, no homes to show, no diys, nada. Nothing caught my eye this past week. I'm sure there will be something coming down the pike soon as Easter is just around the corner. The seeding how-to post is done, will ship it out tomorrow, and a gardening in drought blog post is in the works.
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