osprey94's Blog

Wildflowers and a crock...
May 31, 2008 | 1:01 PM PST

Yesterday at Lowe’s,  I bought 2 Bowles’ golden grass plants and 2 more Stella De Oro daylilies.

Try not to look at my disgusting thumbnail too closely. It's scary.

I plan on putting the grasses in the deck bed on the shady end and the daylilies to fill in a few holes down the length of it.

The wildflower plot is coming along. It’s a carpet of green seedlings now.

I have a compost pile, but it’s pretty sad. I never seem to have enough “green” and “brown” to get it to cook and it just becomes a pile of junk. But, left over a long period of time, it does break down into nice, dark compost. I would really like to make a lot of hot compost one day. To that end, I decided I needed a nice looking kitchen waste crock in the kitchen so I could make use of all the “green stuff” I would normally throw away when I cook. I found this one at Gardeners Supply online site. I love it. It’s nice and big and it actually looks good in my kitchen. It has a charcoal filter that fits nicely into the underside of the lid.

Try not to look too closely at the peeling paint on my windowsill. It's very scary.

I recently read that if you don’t have enough brown material for the compost pile, to keep a bale of straw or hay near your pile and use a layer of it for the brown. I have my bale all ready near the compost pile.

The greens and broccoli are really coming along now...

and the tomatoes and onions look good:

The peas are at least knee high and look nice...

The sunflowers in the veggie garden are coming up (but not enough to bother w/ pics). Still no sign of any asparagus - I’m trying to be patient.

All for now.

Ten school days left. Yes!