One of the problems with container gardening is there isn’t a good way to amend the soil and make it more fertile. The potting soil comes with nutrients, but as the plants grow they use it all up. If I were planting in the ground I’d make compost or pit compost (bury veggie scraps around the plants and they decompose and add nutrients on the spot), but I’ve currently got a rooftop full of pots that need “food” and no way to compost.
We went to the nursery today and picked up some manure (cow version) and it smells like it just came out of the cow. The “manure” we buy in the states has gone through several stages of decomposition and sanitizing to get it to the point where it smells like dirt. This stuff is so natural I even found corn kernels in it. The dog thought it was delightfully yummy smelling and kept trying to eat it which caused Camille to keep screaming, “No Micah! Don’t eat mommy’s cow poop!”
I was up to my elbows in it, mixing the manure in with the old soil and now I can’t get the farm smell off of me. I showered and scrubbed my fingernails with a toothbrush and I still smell like eau de cow. On top of that, my rooftop is currently the resort to every fly within a 2 mile radius. I’m sure (hoping) it will be worth it once the vegetables come in.
carrot harvest round 1
A fraction of our cherry tomatoes that are ripening faster than we can pick them.
At the nursery — not what I’d think of as poinsettia season, but they had a million of them.
I couldn’t resist buying some purple variegated basil
I thought this bansi tree style plant looked like thyme, but it’s actually a variety of basil with the tiniest leaves I’ve ever seen.