Sunday, April 15, 2007

5 crazy things

Five crazy things to which only a gardening addict would admit (a meme from A Lake County Point of View):

1. I keep making new mint plants to replace the ones that I give away to friends, which they then proceed to accidentally kill.

2. I routinely use the cupholder in my car to hold water bottles containing plant cuttings. Christmas cactus, anyone?

3. I've gotten out of the car at a strip mall to get cuttings of the coleus plants used in their landscaping areas (again with the free stuff).

4. I started to get sad when I thought my roommate had thrown out my bag of hair clippings, which I saved to scatter in the garden to deter snails.

5. On my way to the garden, I dumpster dive (not total immersion) for compostable materials, planting containers, watering bottles, etc. It's all about free stuff and recycling! Yeah... Try explaining that when a roommate of a classmate discovers you in the garbage area, cutting branches off a discarded Christmas tree for your compost pile. Oh well, my compost smelled like pine for awhile and that was nice.

2 comments:

lf said...

i was wondering when someone was going to post on this dang blog! =)

hair clippings? you want me to save the hair from my bathroom floor for ya? hahahaha...

sandia said...

Maybe someday we'll have a new post with pictures! Hahaha. No thanks on the bathroom floor hair.