Remebering Sunday on a dreary Monday.

Yesterday was a beautiful new Sunday!  The Sahara dust has settled and the sun made an appearance.  It was a lovely walking day.  All the trees are blooming and the little leaf buds are starting to shimmer a wonderful fresh spring green.  I wish Sunday could happen again.  I'm not feeling this grey and dreary Monday...but in remembrance of how wonderful yesterday was, here a picture of blooming trees.

More excitement from Sunday is that I've spotted my first little bean pods on my bush bean plant!!!  Eeeeek!!!  Already!  Madness!  They're tiny and very cute and hopefully will become big and strong.  I realise that in this photo it is like looking at one of those pictures of Where's Wally? but once you spot it you can't look away (well, at least I couldn't)!

 I photographed my peppermint plant.  It is just exploding with growth.

And also, my new favourite one of my photos, is this coriander.  I just thought I was taking a quick photo of it to put up on here but when I look at it, it is beautiful, and I have no idea why.  Maybe because I have been using lots of coriander in cooking recently?  It is one of the best tastes in the world.  It is definitely the best fresh off the plant.  And coriander is sooooooo easy to grow that everyone should have a plant.  Seriously you'll never look back to the days when you had no fresh coriander.  I should start a coriander appreciation society!

And with that I say goodbye and wish you all a great start into the new week.  See you at the end of it.  Hopefully I will have successfully completed my mission of finding miners lettuce (winter portulak/postelein in German), echinacea, and jalapeno pepper seeds for planting.

Thanks for reading.
..love..

Starters and more.

Although I started this blog yesterday I have been taking photos of some of sown seeds before that.  

On the 9th of February I started by sowing chives, spring onions, coriander and putting lemon and papaya seeds in a jar with a moist tissue for germinating.  By the 16th of February the chives, spring onions, and coriander seeds had started sprouting!  The lemon seeds and papaya seeds had started going fuzzy and growing a small layer of mould on them so I wiped the seeds and changed the tissue.

On the 22nd of February I sowed some more seeds.  I sowed cherry tomatoes, kumato tomatoes (seed saved from a store bought kumato), yellow pear tomatoes (seed saved from tomato plant bought in 2013), and salad cucumbers.  These little pots I made from toilet rolls I put into a tupperware box next to some seeds I put in for germinating.  On the moist tissue bed I put bush beans, peas, and sweet pea flowers for germinating.  I put the tupperware box into a really sunny spot in my room and now have to wait to see what happens.  The tupperware box technique has been a success for many years so this will hopefully also be a WIN!

I took a photo of my non-edible plants as well.  (That's a lie, my scotch bonnet is hidden in there)  Look how sunny it is!!!!

To finish off this blog post here is a picture of some leaves from succulents which I collected.  I went to a plant shop and noticed all of these leaves lying on the soil in their plant pots, since I recently learned that one can propagate succulents from their leaves, I decided to take them with me and see if propagation works for me.  I am now letting the ends dry out for a couple of days before I lay them on a soil bed.

I have been reading up about succulent propagation on these two websites, if you're interested you should check them out, they are really wonderful.
http://needlesandleaves.net/blog/2013/5/31/propagating-leggy-succulents
and
http://www.succulentsandsunshine.com/ 

OK then, that's enough for today!

..love..