Garden Gets
Saturday | May 7th, 2011 | 38 Comments 
Paid a visit to the nursery this morning to pick up some plants for my balcony garden. 
I didn’t really do any gardening last summer. 
I think that was a mistake. 
Gardening is something I’ve done every summer since I was a kid and it’s good for my peace of mind! The year before I did the edamame and herbs, etc. and it was wildly successful and took up most my balcony space! Very forest-like in the end. 
But I wanted to keep it easy this year 
with plants I know thrive. I get really weird sunlight ratios haahaa~ 
Not full sun but more than partial shade. 
I wish I got full direct sunlight so I could do a ton of blooming flowers. 
But whatever. 
I’m doing a tomato + herb garden mostly!! I’ve grown them before & they do great in my location.
What I’m growing:
- Cherry Tomatoes “Sugary”
- Rosemary “Santa Barbara”
- Garlic Chives
- Lime Thyme
- German Chamomile
- Portulaca “Sundial Tangerine” shade
- Clover “Charmed Velvet”
- White Clover “Dark Dancer”
- Flying Colors “Red” shade
I grew clover a few years ago too and it thrives like the weed it is! 
It’s super hardy and always so beautiful. This species produces a lot of lucky 4-leaf steams!
The tomatoes will be tiny and useful in salads or on sandwiches. 
I don’t like tomatoes too much but Mike does and it thrived last time I grew it on my balcony. I, however, LOVE herb plants like thyme and chives which I use constantly! 
I got the chamomile because it produces little daisy-like blooms. Wonder if I can dry it for tea? I’m going to research that a bit. The flowers I got were the portulaca and this new plant called “Flying Colors!” Never grew the Flying Colors nor even heard of it. 
But it’s “award winning” 
and labeled as liking sun/partial shade so here’s hoping! The blooms are tiny and red. Very pretty.
Portulaca you can’t screw up. Like seriously… they’ll reseed themselves too hahaha~
OK so garden-time has begun!! 
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Jen @ 8:08 pm ; Saturday [url]
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whilst feeling 
Excited
Roses Making a Comeback
Wednesday | August 13th, 2008 | 28 Comments
My rose bush is finally making a comeback! After the icky ordeal of them being attacked by ruthless pests, they are blooming nonstop
. I also received a package today from my grandparents. Fresh homemade biscotti, pizzelle (?), and strawberry fig preserves! I really feel loved when they send me things. Living so far from family… it’s so easy to think they don’t care about you. Especially when they never ever try to visit you (rawr, they’ll never see my house, ever.) But these things… help make those feeling drift away.
WarGames was playing on AMC tonight… it made me feel really old. Made in 1983 (whoot my birth year!) It was one of my favorite movies growing up. I know AMC doesn’t just play old classics anymore… but nevertheless, hahahahah 
Oh, oh oh! Mike sent me this video! It’s so funny/cute/scary-creepy if you like owls!!
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Jen @ 9:23 pm ; Wednesday [url]
TAGS: garden, funny stuff
whilst feeling 
Lonely
Jenny
