Another warm day today, but not really surprising as it’s summer! We had a high of 27.4 degrees Celcius at home, although it has felt warmer. I have had a nice little potter around my garden, which is always nice after work.
Below are the beans that I potted up over the weekend. They are enjoying more space than in the smaller pots they were in.
This is the last of the bean seeds to germinate from the week before last. I had a bit of space to put it into a bigger pot. Again, the roots were growing out of this pot like the others-yesterday was when this plant germinated, amazing me at the speed they grow.
Here is a camphor laurel that decided to germinate itself in my plant pot. These turn into massive trees that spread their seeds all over the place, which is why it is often considered a weed here in Sydney. I obviously took this out of my plant pot.
Below is my cucumber plant that is really full of flowers. I’m hoping to see some cucumbers soon!
My Crassula ovata, below, is a little floppy. I’m hoping that it goes back to its upright soon, as I really like these little succulents. The flowers and the red tinge the leaves can get along the edge are lovely. Also, I got this as a cutting and I don’t like it when I have a plant that fails (even though this happens all the time!).
Finally, one of my tomatoes has a flower on it. There are more buds forming, which is a good thing. Home grown tomatoes are the some of the best tasting things anyone can eat in my opinion. They are also really versatile as a food item. I think tomatoes are what I want to eat the most out of all the things I am growing.
3 responses to “A quick Monday gardening session”
I so love reading about your garden, while we have snow on the ground!
With your little Jade tree cutting, did you leave it to dry a bit before potting it up? When I was a kid, my mother had a massive Jade tree, so when I moved out, I wanted to have one, too, and bought one from a store.
It died.
Turns out I was over watering it. 😄 Some years ago, I bought a set of 3 little Jade trees for my daughter. They got huge! When we moved, we had our plants in the van with us, and it got so cold when we stopped for a couple of hours nap, much of it died off. Amazingly, they recovered. They are remarkably resilient, surviving being knocked over many times by the cats before we could create a cat free plant room. Broken branches and even leaves will quickly send out roots to propagate themselves. Then it’s just a matter of shoving them in the ground. We’ve given many chunks away, and still have several pots of them, including the original three, which are – once again! – massive!
Thanks for the interest in my little garden, although I think I’d rather have the snow right now!
With my jade plant, I did leave it to dry a little before potting up. I don’t think I left it as long as I probably should have though!
I hope I can end up with a huge one like you as they are really nice plants. I think it just needs a little more intentional neglect-some plants seem to do better that way!
My mother was brutal to her house plants, and they all thrived!!!