What's the worst that could happen?
Jan. 21st, 2019 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beehammerI've decided to try edible gardening again, because successfully not killing a small handful of essentially unkillable plants for a month has given me an outsized sense of my likelihood of success.
I'm starting with more essentially unkillable plants--a handful of sweet potato vines my grandfather ripped out of his yard are soaking in jars in the hopes that they'll root and give me a half-dozen or so slips. There's a packet each of asparagus bean and collard seeds on their way. I put a couple of Everglades tomato plants in one of the planters last week. Ordering the seeds means I can get free shipping on a half-dozen blackberry plants to put in along one of my fences, where they'll look nice if nothing else.
One of the big things I missed last time I tried anything like this was having anything resembling a habitat in my yard. The food plants I was experimenting with were the only real plants around, which meant there was nowhere for the predator-bugs who tend to take care of pests to live. That's more or less taken care of now, with all the full-stocked planters scattered around the property.
I'm starting with more essentially unkillable plants--a handful of sweet potato vines my grandfather ripped out of his yard are soaking in jars in the hopes that they'll root and give me a half-dozen or so slips. There's a packet each of asparagus bean and collard seeds on their way. I put a couple of Everglades tomato plants in one of the planters last week. Ordering the seeds means I can get free shipping on a half-dozen blackberry plants to put in along one of my fences, where they'll look nice if nothing else.
One of the big things I missed last time I tried anything like this was having anything resembling a habitat in my yard. The food plants I was experimenting with were the only real plants around, which meant there was nowhere for the predator-bugs who tend to take care of pests to live. That's more or less taken care of now, with all the full-stocked planters scattered around the property.
