Gardening for dummies

And so it begins.

I'm not a complete gardening dummy..... I mean, I have lots of house plants and some outside plants on our patio. I've done some container gardening. I've grown basil, jalapeno peppers, and assorted annuals from seed. I've grown tomatos and bell peppers from baby plants. I know how to repot, how to mulch, how to fertilize.... but I've always just gone by the bare basics of gardening. Now I'm hoping to research, to really learn secrets and tips, to really dig deeper..... pun totally intended.

I stopped by an Estate Sale off of Johnson today and picked up a nice Ficus Benjamina tree for just $3.00! It's very healthy now, but will probably lose much of its foliage in the upcoming days. Ficus trees are big babies and can be incredibly sensitive to any sort of changes: light, heat, movement, or repotting. I may have to repot it as I think it's a bit root bound, but hopefully I can give it some time to adjust to its new home first so it doesn't shrivel up and die on me.

I took a trip to Pacific Home and Garden store. Those of you SLO folks out there, they're having a house plant sale: $4.99 for 6" house plants, $19.99 for 10". So I bought a few of those. Tomorrow I'll be repotting them all.

When I repot, I'm always scrambling around for rocks or terracotta shards to cover the drainage hole in my pots. But here's a genius idea I stole from My New Favorite Site: Use coffee filters! What a grand idea! Or use styrofoam packing peanuts!

Today I also bought my rubbermaid bin for my homemade composting bin. And I got a bunch of bulbs and tubers: Ranunculus, Anemone, and Watsonia Pyramidata. I'm a little nervous since I've never planted bulbs before and they were a bit pricey.  And since I don't have a "garden" (yet) I have to use containers, and I'm not sure how well the bulbs will do in containers.

I browsed longingly through all the seed packets, but I still have a lot of planning and research to do before I decide what to buy and what I should grow. Plus, I'm pretty far from optimal germination time for most vegetables.

Tomorrow's agenda: Repotting house plants, gathering browns and greens for the compost bin, and readying my homemade compost bin.

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[rew]

you have a yard in which to garden, and enough space for a compost bin ... i'm trying to control my jealousy :-)

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Don't be too jealous. My yard is not "gardenable", so Tay and I are building a raised bed. And since we rent, anything we build either has to be small enough to take with us or the next tenants are lucky ducks. And as far as composting goes, read this:
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/urbancomposting.php

This is what I made yesterday with a little rectangular rubbermaid bin. If you have a little balcony or fire escape, you can compost too! Then you can give compost to your friends for their yard and sleep better at night knowing that instead of filling up landfills with nutritious browns and greens (coffee grounds included), you're making fertilizer! Do you have any community gardens around? Or rooftop gardens?

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