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[anagramofbrat]

Holy crap, it's lovely out. which of course leads to delicious thoughts of summer gardening. I definitely need to do the beefsteak tomatoes again, and I definitely want to do something involving old soda bottles and herbs and duct tape. Also strawberries, and hopefully this year I won't kill em.Trying to figure out what else I want to try growing this summer. The pickling cukes didn't work out well. Maybe green beans and peppers? Hell, head58 seemed to do so well growing ghost peppers last year that I may try it out this year.

I need to dump out, rinse and resoil all the pots from last year, though I'm sort of annoyed that one of my big terra cotta ones has a deep crack in it. (oh well, it's a $5 pot.) Is it okay to reuse last year's soil if I pick all the weeds and roots out of it and fertilize it real good? or should i find someplace to compost it and start fresh?

And of course I have Spidey and the new aloe plants to contend with. Spidey needs to have his little spidery babies potted too.

Well we'll see where it all goes.

Comments

[breakableheart.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of the pea pod vines. You could put several pots in a spoke pattern then build a tee-pee structure with long bamboo sticks and make a little hidey place for the childrens. Plus peas are fun! And you can replant several times per season!

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Compost the dirt and start over. It's a pain, I know, but if there are any diseases or contaminants in there you don't want to pass them on to the new plants. This is especially important for peppers and tomatoes.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what I figured. Glad I was correct.