ScoopPC11's Blog

Unless I find some new mints, anyway. :-) Right now, I have the following mints: peppermint, white peppermint, apple mint, ginger mint, variegated peppermint, alpine mint (I think it's supposed to be a bush, but it's not behaving like one at the moment), spearmint (LOTS of it -- thank goodness it's in a container!), pineapple mint, chocolate mint, orange mint, catnip, European pennyroyal, and vareigated calamint (which is blossoming with these little purple flowers). Only recently harvested the apple mint, ginger mint and alpine mints for the first time. Most of them are in the freezer. Since I have an abundance of spearmint, I've been harvesting, freezing the bottom leaves that I pull off the plant, and dry the rest. I think once my husband and I get a bigger place I'm going ot make sure the new place has a BIG freezer section.

My backyard is so full of containers of plants right now that even a lot of the neighbors are commenting on it. (In praise, not in annoyance, thankfully) I might still move some more around, but I already had to move some others because one of my columbines broke in the high wind, so I bought two new ones and placed them in a long container with the other columbine that was doing fine. Now my mums are suffering from tilt syndrome -- I put more mulch down to weigh it even again, but it doesn't fix the fact that the top of all their stems is bent to the right. I hope they outgrow it.

Two of the speedwells are starting to bloom. Yippee!

 At least one of my tomato plants is showing serious growth, and will have to start tying it off. Yippee!