Happy Earth Day! In my opinion, one of the best things you can do to help the earth is to grow some of what you use yourself – vegetables, herbs (culinary and/or medicinal), fruit, cut flowers if you like keeping flowers in the house, etc. Last week I read about a site that’s helping people to do just that: Kitchen Gardeners International. I haven’t had much time to explore it yet, but what I have seen does seem pretty cool. It seems like a nice mix of stuff for novices and more advanced gardeners, and their list of gardening blogs is one of the best I’ve yet seen on the web. Another great thing to do is to use reusable bags instead of plastic or paper ones. I even use them to carry home plants from the nursery.
Appropriately enough, today I discovered that the first peas are finally sprouting! If I didn’t think from past experience the picture wouldn’t turn out very well, I would attempt to take one to post here. Something like tiny pea sprouts is just too much for my digital camera to typically be able to take a good macro shot of. Instead, here’s a photo of the taller, leggier, larger-potted nemesia (not the cultivar ‘Sundrops’ that I already planted), corydalis ‘Purple Leaf’, and saxifrage ‘Peter Pan’ waiting to be planted:
I checked the forecast this morning and the revised forecast says it is supposed to be 80 F tomorrow! So hopefully I will get to plant the rest of the stuff in pots today. And hopefully the heat wave won’t keep the peas from continuing to sprout.
