My First Cucumber
Jun. 30th, 2010 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xelaI was at Russo's one day this spring, when they had table upon table of vegetable seedlings out front. So I developed a sudden urge to try container gardening. And gave in to it.
I used to refuse to have anything to do with trying to grow plants, believing I had a notorious brown thumb. I've had a little more success in recent years, but I was certainly not prepared for this. For one thing, I had no containers. But Alyse had a bunch of empty cat litter buckets; I drilled drain holes in them, got some soil and set myself up as a container gardener.
I had not, of course, actually read the little tags that came with the seedlings, which said things like "plant in rows 2 to 3 feet apart," until I got them home and was starting to transplant them. So as I transplanted them into roughly an order of magnitude less soil then the instructions implied they needed, I wasn't all that hopeful.
So this pleases me immensely:
I used to refuse to have anything to do with trying to grow plants, believing I had a notorious brown thumb. I've had a little more success in recent years, but I was certainly not prepared for this. For one thing, I had no containers. But Alyse had a bunch of empty cat litter buckets; I drilled drain holes in them, got some soil and set myself up as a container gardener.
I had not, of course, actually read the little tags that came with the seedlings, which said things like "plant in rows 2 to 3 feet apart," until I got them home and was starting to transplant them. So as I transplanted them into roughly an order of magnitude less soil then the instructions implied they needed, I wasn't all that hopeful.
So this pleases me immensely:
