trudy's Blog

Trudy's blog
May 6, 2007 | 1:45 PM PST
Tags: comfrey , eggplant , gourds , martin , fern , jasmine , pond , pinestraw , barrels , cotton

Got a few more things done around here,  repotted some houseplants an got them placed out in the beds.  Planted the green cotton plants.  The comfrey I traded for is coming along nicely.  A friend gave me  5 decent 1/2 barrel like containers,  I drilled some drainage holes in them.  Now just to get up enough soil to fill them with.  I got one done and planted 2 cotton plants 1 comfrey an 1 Thai Green Eggplant all in the first half of it.  Then sowed 3 hills of Martin Gourd seeds towards the back.  I've place it against a lattice trellis that I have jasmine growing on so the gourds will have something to climb on.   Either they make it or they don't,  if I care to much they won't do right.  

 I kept forgetting about the Australian Fern tree I bought that I had put in the bathroom weeks ago when we were still having chances of frost.  I finally got it out an repotted it, put it next to the pond.   I got the fountain back running for the pond and cleaned the screens of pinestraw.  The screens are to give the fish a safe haven from the blue heron that wiped out my fish a couple years ago.  Plus it helps keep some of the straw out of the pond.  So what that I can't see the fish most of the time, at least they are safe.