I don't know how it happened, because it's felt like such a slow easy natural pace for me in getting into gardening, but now I've just counted the plants I have and realized that I have 14 different types of plants, and 40 total plants growing. That's ridiculous! I've got 4 or 5 more that I'm about to plant once I prepare the soil as well. And it hardly takes up much of my lifestyle or time. It's just been laid back easy going gardening. I've been learning a lot, as usual, from it as well as finding it very life-giving (pun intended). I decided last week that I wanted to try out growing a pineapple by cutting off the crown of a pineapple. It's not the right climate here so I have to raise it indoors for most of it's early stages of life. It will take 2 years before it starts producing it's first pineapple. Which is one thing I love about it. I like how gardening seems to slow down my perception of life and time.
I did my first guerrilla gardening adventure by planting 2 sunflowers in my friends' backyard as a gift, because they just had twins. I had to do it during heavy rain, lightning, and hail, which made it pretty memorable. I'm thinking it will be awhile before they notice, because they'll be busy with the babies.
My seeds are becoming seedlings and now my garden has a nice covering of mulch. I don't have pictures of it at the moment, but I'll try and get some. Hope you're enjoying the journey. Here is my list so far of what I'm growing at the moment.
Italian tomatoes x5
Cherry tomatoes x5
Basil x6
Rosemary 1
Beet-root x4
squash x3
capsicum (bell pepers) x2
cucumbers x2
garlicx2
shallots x3
lettuce x3
eggplant 1
sunflowers x4
pineapple 1
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