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I have been thinking about plant origins and variations.

Spurred by this article and lovely infographic, and the fact that when you plant 5 or 6 different Brassicae in one long garden plot, it becomes really really obvious they're the same plant (esp. Kale and Brussels sprouts! They make nearly identical plants!) and by this cute video showing plants then-and-now, it makes me wonder both about what's in our garden (right now? Dirt and last year's carrots and leeks, and one barely-surviving kale plant) and about worldbuilding plants.

And then I think about growing purple potatoes, and I think about this, Ursula Vernon's informative rant on the Potato Apocalypse, and I think about varieties.

We have such bounty, and such breadth and depth available. It's pretty awesome.

Crossposts: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/1175873.html

I started chive seeds last night!

Chives are one of my favorite plants, because they start coming up and are green and edible when the rest of the world is full of snow. Plus, they're super low-maintenance.

I already have chives growing in my Invasive Plants garden (two sorts), but I want to fill in some of the bleaker and weedier parts of the hedgerow with chives, which will take, ah, quite a bit of chives.

I started one "flat" (in this case, two stacked take-out containers with holes poked in the top one for drainage), one of chives-chives (Allium schoenoprasum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chives) and one of garlic chives (Allium tuberosum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives) I'm not sure about the second chives - they are listed either as the same thing as gau choy/Chinese chives or a completely different thing, so we shall see).

Each flat has 6 rows of 4 seeds each, which will get me a good start, but I want to do two flats each eventually and find other varieties of chive, as well as something that I bought from a nursery last year - society garlic (which is grown for its leaves, culinarily, and for its pretty flowers). Our hedgerow is going to smell beautiful. Well, depending on your tastes, but we're downwind from a dairy farm, sooo...

This might be a good article for me to bookmark - http://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/bulbs/alliums-for-your-garden/

And more info on chives - http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Chives

Know any good varieties I can grow from seed?

Crossposts: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/836950.html

(Monday went by before I managed to write this up!)

We found a bay tree!!

Background: we have been looking for a bay plant to grow for several years, through several nurseries. They're a Mediterranean tree and can't survive outside in a NY State winter, but they can be brought inside for the winter if grown in a pot - and T. cooks with a lot lot lot of bay.

So we finally found one utterly by accident while looking for pepper plants! SO EXCITED!

(We also: saw the Avengers, bought a cherry tomato, and bought sage, mint, mint, and strawberries. And Lavender).

Capriox came to hang out Sunday afternoon for a while - we ate banana bread and showed off our mess. :-D It's always awesome when friends come to visit. <3

Then we got to work on the "invasives" garden: A spot by the eastern side of the house, between the chimney and the garbage cans, where I planted freecycled chives last year. This year I added chocolate mint and pineapple mint in these two giant square cement blocks that had been stacked near the chimney. Should take them a couple weeks to grow out of that!

Link du jour: Vertical Farm in a gutter!

Please check out the Summer Giraffe Poll and the Giraffe Theme request.

Crossposts: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/474945.html

Yesterday, we made applesauce.
Monday, we made applesauce and apple cake.
Sunday, we made applesauce.
Saturday, we got lost on an Epic!Quest! for apple cider.
Tonight, we will make applesauce. And maybe can it.
(the makeshift canner (our giant pot and a steamer rack from the Chinese food store) will hold 8 quart jars. Our next-biggest pot will hold about 8 cups of applesauce. So batches.)

There hasn't been as much work on this house this week, but we got a Giant Order Of Stuff from Lowes yesterday (incl. the stuff for the closet, window molding, log rack supplies, door molding, drywall, insulation... and a chest freezer) so there will be Stuff to Do once again. Also, mudding and painting. This bedroom is taking a lot of mudding.

~~
Read The Kiss, from

ysabetwordsmith's mid-month Monster House Fishbowl, from my prompt.

Read a short Addergoole fanfic, by

cluudle!!

Read Ghost Story, by

rix_scaedu

~

And someone is trying square foot gardening & Lasagna gardening together!

Crossposts: http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/297694.html

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