ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO BE A GARDENER?

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:05 am

Coriserai wrote:

Oooh gardening.
Since my room is in the basement, my window leads to a tiny fire escape area that I'd have to climb up to get out of the house if I was trapped or something. It's the only thing I can see when my curtains are open and it's butt-ugly with dead weeds and crap, so I've decided to turn it into a tiny atrium. I'm planning on pulling up the weeds, putting down some topsoil, and planting flowers. I have gladiola bulbs and I was thinking about putting bleeding hearts there too, but then I remember how big bleeding heart plants can get so I'm really not sure.

Does anyone have another suggestion for what to plant there?

That depends. Do you want annuals, or perennials?

EDIT: Whoops, forum borked and told me Cori's post was after my first one. Oh well.

Cori · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:12 am

I don't have a preference for annual or perennial, but this area gets colder than at my old house--there's still frost on my car sometimes. So plants that can handle frost would be good.

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:23 am

Do you like 'mums or hostas? Chrysanthemums are fairly sturdy, and you don't plant hostas for another month anyway. Those are really the only two I can think of that wouldn't croak in the dry heat that Eastern Washington gets in the summer.

Cori · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:26 am

Okay, I'll look for some of those next time I go into town. Thanks!

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:33 am

Yup yup
I'll look up some more, though. I can also ask my nana if she knows of any summer flowers that do well in confined spaces.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:43 pm

My mom is growing Aloe in a vase full of water, is she doing it right?

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:45 pm

You typically want aloe to be able to drain, since it's a desert plant. Succulents can actually kind of get fucked over with too much water.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:54 pm

It's in dirt now. I guess she was trying to make it grow roots because it was an arm from my mother's mother's plant.

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:57 pm

Ahhhh alright. You're good then.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 12:59 pm

Now what does one do with aloe?

Riku · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:01 pm

Let it grow. Challenge yourself to get it to bloom. If you get burned, snap an arm and squeeze the gel out.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:08 pm

Cool, I remember drinking this bottled water that had Aloe chunks in it. It had some korean label on it. I ws the only person who loked how it tasted.

Tetrunes · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:08 pm

Cool, I remember drinking this bottled water that had Aloe chunks in it. It had some korean label on it. I ws the only person who loked how it tasted.

[Insert Fail] · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:56 pm

DID SOMEONE MENTION GARDENING?

HELL YEAH SON LOOKIT ALL THIS PLANT BUSINESS

TWO daisies SECTIONS OF PLANTS

FIRST ONE IS FLOWERS AND ALL THAT PRETTY GIRLY CRAP, GOT SOME GERANIUMS AND LILIES AND MOON FLOWERS GROWIN' UP ALL THEM VINES

SECOND ONE IS TOMATOES AND FREAKIN' BELL PEPPERS BECAUSE I GOD daisies LOVE BELL PEPPERS

UP. CLOSE. AND. PERSONAL.

SON.

LOOK AT ALL THESE BABY VEGGIES. ON THEIR WAY TO MAKIN' MOMMA PROUD.

PRETTY FRU-FRU FLOWERS. YEEEEAAAAH.

These are all from back in New Joizee. I miss gardening. The new house has this gigantic backyard, and the front yard needs a ton of fixin' up, so I'm gonna get to put on my gardening gloves again. :D

AngelicSongx · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 7:53 pm

LOOK
AT
MY FLOWERS

All right, enough editing. Whenever I edit one post it connects to the other one for some reason, so I'll just put my Morning Glories in links.

AWKWARD ZOMBIE

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