this weekend was a busy one, as they all will be for like, the rest of forever. I met a cute baby named Calvin, shot an amazing kitchen for The Reader, attended a wedding shower, ran all over the city in the rain, attempted to go to the Shedd Aquarium on a Sunday (bad idea), watched some basketball, saw Bridesmaids, and finally planted my little indoor herb garden.
I turned this:
into this:
yes, my herb garden is going to live on top of my dryer, because my little enclosed back porch is the sunniest room in the house. I don't trust my neighbors gigantor dog who digs up everything, otherwise I'd have planted them outside.
I planted: basil, Thai basil, pineapple sage, sweet mint, thyme, oregano, lavender, and curly parsley. I've also got an onion that's sprouted, so I thought I'd see where that went. and I'm attempting to sprout some avocado seeds, but I've never had any luck with that, so I'm not expecting much there.
this week I am working on projecting positivity, putting good energy into the universe, and focusing on exciting changes. what are your plans?
8 comments:
Amen to positivity, good energy and herb gardens! Yours looks delightful- I just bought plants for mine this weekend, too.
nice girl! but F, now I feel that much more behind on my herb garden. the pineapple sage sounds interesting.
I just stumpled on your blog, and I just had to comment after you mentioned thinking about doing something with your avocado seed. I started one about a year ago, and it's now a little tree!
Here's what you do (or, what I did):
You need the avocado seed, 3-4 toothpicks, and a small-ish cup.
With the seed upright, poke the toothpicks around the middle, so if you're looking from the top (or bottom) it looks like a Mercedes symbol (or burst if you're using 4 or more). Then you place it on the cup (the toothpicks propping the seed out of the cup), which you fill with water, so the bottom half of the seed is immersed in the water.
Make sure there is always water in the cup to keep the seed wet. After 3-7 weeks, the seed will crack open. (I left mine in the water for another week.) Then take the toothpicks out, plant it in a pot, keeping the top half of the seed exposed from the soil, as it was exposed from the water.
After a couple weeks, watering regularly to keep the soil moist, you'll notice a little nubby growing from the crack in the seed. That's your little tree! Keep watering it, and within just a few weeks, it will grow to about a foot tall and will start to grow leaves.
That's where mine is now. I've been told as the leaves continue to appear, if you want it to be a bushier tree, just keep pinching the leaves off the top and it will stunt it from getting taller, but will continue to grow leaves.
If you have any questions, let me know!
thanks for all the info, agg! that's actually exactly what I did :) but I tried it when I lived in California to no avail, so I hope things go better this time. here are some questions:
- can either end of the seed be in the water? one end has a darker circle on it, the other end seems a tiny bit more pointed. hm.
- the seeds/pits were rinsed off and left out for about a week, does that matter?
thanks for your help! I super appreciate it. here's hopin' my little avocados grow into something!!
I don't think it matters which end is in the water. In fact, I've also been told that you can just put the whole seed in a cup of water. And, now that I'm thinking about it, I think I ended up doing that with mine because the water kept getting icky at the top, and it was easier to maintain when it was fully immersed and didn't get that gross ickiness. Both my best friend and I have experimented a few times...mostly due to forgetting to keep enough water in the cup and the seed drying out.
And, I'm in New Hampshire, so I'm not expecting to actually produce avocados, and I'm perfectly content with my little tree.
(I'm in the process of moving, but am hoping to start a little blog that's been in the process all year...when I get settled I'll share my blog and post a picture of my little avocado tree!)
=) Andrea
Andrea, thanks! super helpful :)
I love your cutie herb garden! I always have the problem of not wanting to take much from the plants for fear of decimating them, but then instead I end up wasting the herbs because they go to seed before I've used much. But I'm sure that's just me. :-)
Love it! I want my herb garden to look like this!!
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