Moved the hosta i bought a while back into a pot with some miracle-gro potting soil. its supposed to shoot up a flower stalk in the fall - it did last time. With the horrible spot its been at i'm doubtful i'll see any pretty lavender flowers from it. I'm ashamed i left it in such poor conditions for so long. The soil in the front of my house is terrible, even after i tried to amend it a bit to improve the drainage. I figure that if i ever want to plant anything decently in my yard that is not a tree, i'm gonna have to make my own soil and fill a huge area with it (maybe put a layer of rocks at the bottom to boot). So i'm going to have to start saving up all the yard material this season. Come on fall, gimme some leaves.
I moved the old veggie bed after i saw that the east facing wall i placed it up against wasn't getting as much sun as I would think vegetables would need. Its now completely out in the open in the middle of my yard, out of most all of the shadows. The hosta got placed in a pot where the bed used to get the least amount of light. Before it was in pretty much full shade. I'll see how the new soil and sun affect it.
After moving the old bed into the sun I went to the garden center to buy vegetables. Now I planned on getting the stuff that was correct for the season you know, some greens, root variety and whatnot, but even though i know that now is not the best time and i should have done it months ago (july)... i got tomatoes anyway. i know i shouldn't have but i did. Planted one of each: better boy, beefmaster, roma, and sweet 100. I also planted some green jalapeño peppers and mulched them all like i've never mulched before : ) I bought some black seed simpson lettuce seeds too that need to go into the ground asap and i wanted to try carrots this year maybe some radish too, i donno. I'll see what strikes my fancy when i go the the store.
Moved the angel trumpet into a bigger pot as well. It kept losing water too fast and looking a bit wilty on me so i figured it was time. The roots weren't all rootbound to the sides of the pot but they were getting close. I made sure to loosen them a bit before i replanted it just for good measure. He got mulched like crazy too as well as an extra dose for the roses, who have not been looking too fantastic lately but are starting to look a bit better after i did some fertilizing.
Which reminds me of a silly side story... An acquaintance of my dads came over today while i was outside doing plant-related-happenings and motioned at my angel trumpet (that is NOT in bloom) and goes "hey, is that an angel trumpet?" i was very, very surprised to think that anyone my dad would know would have any inkling of knowledge about what variety of plant that was without it bearing flowers yet. Veggies, yeah i could see, but flowering, non-edible stuff no. So i tell him "yeah, it is actually" only to get a reply of "ah man, you know those make you trip out". Sigh... yes, i looked them up after i bought the seeds and wiki did inform me of that, not that i had any plans on hallucinating any time soon. He then proceeds to tell me HOW to do it. He's all like "well alright, look, here's what you do... you take the little new leaves like this... *walks over to the plant and actually points at a leaf* and you boil it and then you drink it like tea. But don't do too much or you'll end up like my buddy that hit it one too many times and died" which, the last part i'm inclined to believe is a total lie, just put in there to jazz up the story a bit. Then he goes on to say, "aw, well what color is it?" and if memory serves me right its white, which i told him and he got super excited about b/c apparently the white ones are supposed to be like the best for uh, brewing i suppose. He even wanted to trade me for a pink one that he's got. I told him i'd give him seeds if and when i got them.
I just find it a bit funny that he recognized the plant not because it was pretty or interesting but because it had hallucinogenic properties. Fan-freaking-tastic. I didn't bother to tell him that the Datura vine sitting just behind it was just as if not more mind numbingly trippy.Oh, the people my dad knows...
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