The rain and cold has finally made an exit and I realised that there were some gardening chores that I needed to do to prepare some of the plants for the scorching days on the way.
Amazingly, the couple of trees that have been sitting in bags since last year are still alive and have exploded with new leaves since the days have stretched. The jasmine has been making me smile with some really pretty pink buds that are now in a massive spray of white blooms all over the plant and even my thyme is flowering. It's been so rewarding watching all the plants come back to life and pushing out new growth.
We went shopping for large pots and then found these - they are about half the price of plant pots but are minus the holes...I decided to sort that out quite quickly and grabbed the cordless drill. Zip zip zziippp and away we go. I enjoyed covering the floor with colourful plastic spirals and I rescued the little millipede from in between them and carried her to the garden too.
Looking at the size of these buckets I totally miscalculated the amount of soil they take. We got 10 x 30dm bags of soil thinking that each pot would probably take three. They took one and a half each, so I was very happy to have soil left over to repot all the other plants that have outgrown their space.
I spent a good couple of hours in the garden and loved every second, making sure each plant was well watered after I had repotted them. I also planted the mint I was gifted by my friend Tash. It seems to be happy and enjoying the sun. The herbs in the planter are also doing really well now. The rosemary has doubled in size, I've repotted the thyme and both oreganos as they have also just boomed in size. It's amazing to have fresh herbs on hand for cooking and in the coming weeks, the new planter box should be in and then I'll put them all in there. I also took some oregano cuttings to root which I will give to friends and family.
Since having had such a bad tomato experience recently, I'm hesitant to try that again for a while, but maybe now that it's summer I would have better results. It would be nice to have some sort of home grown fruit, but maybe for now I should just stick to strawberries and not try my luck too much.
Gardening has become such a nice part of my week, I'm looking forward to more projects soon. Even though there isn't that much space here, I'm making it work and using what I can to make it happen.
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝑨𝑰 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆. 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏.