This is my 200th Post!!!! 29/08/2011

Yay! So I decided to add a little bit of something to this post

First of all, I’d like to tell you all that Snoopy made it to The Daily Bunny a few days ago with his adorable sleeping photo. You can see the photo here Hubby thought it would be fun if we stuck some carot pieces into Snoopy’s wooden ball. We give the ball to him and off he took with it behind the table. Here is a photo of him with his wooden ball:

I also finished a pair of socks, that will be Christmas gifts – so I have 2 out of 10 socks done (or 1 out of 5 pairs). I hope I will be able to finish the ones that will go to the US in middle of October, but hubby, bunny and I will be moving in the next few months, so I must hurry … anyway, here is the photo (more like a teaser )

As usual, once I am happy with my at least one of them will break and I will have to file them short. This time was no exception. I got to keep the rectangle shape but they’re shorter – and not so nice in shape as they were. Can’t wait until they’re longer again and I can file a nicer shape. Here is a picture of how nice they looked in blue with white stickers – which sadly lasted only 20 hours – before I had to shorten everything:

I did not get to do a lot with my plants lately and I must admit that I did call some of them. However, I can proudly say that my Vanilla plant is doing very well and growing fast. I did a little climbing triangle for it to grow even higher

Well that pretty much wraps it all up I hope you enjoyed my 200th post

Plant Update 15/06/2011

I have not talked about my plants in a while. I am just too busy to write much.

I happy to report that my peppermint is doing very well and we hope that we can harvest some tea later this year (we can’t wait )

Our watermelon and tomato plant is doing very well, too.

DONE – Cauchy 12/06/2011

I finished the Cauchy socks just now while waiting if the F1 race is being re-started not.

in the background, you can see our watermelon plant that has lots of blossoms and even tiny water melons already

Plant update 25/04/2011

We have a fly/bug invasion outside which sadly hurt our strawberry plants. We bought yellow stickers and sand to help, so we will see if we can save them or need to throw them out. Here are two new plants we just got, one Cola-Plant and a red peppermint plant – both already protected by the sand and yellow sticker.

The peppermint seedlings are finally growing, though still really slow. Hope we will ever be able to have tea from them

From right to left, the lemon and orange seedlings, kiwi and pumpkin seedlings and then the Grünlilie.

Seeds 16/04/2011

I re-potted the tomato plants today. They were quite big for their little pot so now they have a pot a lot bigger than the other one. Eventually they will be treated to their own pot, but not until they’re big enough to be outside.

Here are some updated photos of my other plants, from right to left: Apple seedling (from an apple we ate wit Snoopy), Mango seedling (which is finally starting to grow) and the lemon/orange seedlings.

I am a little sad that my peppermint seedlings are not growing. They’re still the same as last weekend and barely any different than the weekend before. I did fertilize them and everything I’d have loved to have my own peppermint plant …

Plant update 10/04/2011

Today was the big re-potting day Lots of plants got their well deserved bigger homes. From right to left: Peppermint, lemon/orange, Kiwi and Benjamini

The peppermint plants are barely growing, so I figured they’re in for a replant as well as a little fertilizer. Let’s hope that will help them to grow, I love peppermint tea. I have one orange twin (two plants from on seed) and a lemon seed that lots at least 3 seedlings from one seed. Let’s see how they’re doing. The kiwi seeds stopped growing, too, so they got the same treatment as the peppermints. So let’s see how this journey keeps going

Seed update 02/04/2011

Our plants had a hard week since both of us were barely home. Most of them did ok even with less water and less care, but I think my big lemon seedling might have not survived   The Mango root (sadly no leaves or stem yet), Vanilla, Tea and Benjaminis are doing great.

Here is an updated photo of the sage (right), Kiwi (middle) and tomato (right) seedlings:

I don’t know if I will plant some more seeds today or sometime during the week. I have really great seeds that I got from the RAK, so I cannot wait

Seedling update 27/03/2011

The sage is doing quite well. They got a leave pair during last week and smell nicely like sage. I am rather pleased and looking forward to see how they develop during the next weeks ..

The tomato seedlings are growing nicely, too. They’re not growing so fast, but have already three leaves and hopefully will grow more

And to end this post, I added a photo of my freshly sprouted Kiwi (left), tiny peppermint (middle) and lemon (right)

Seed update 20/03/2011

Sadly, I planted the salad seeds while it was still too dark outside and alas they did not work out I might plant some more in two weeks – by then the light conditions should be better. Luckily, the sage plants took a while and now they’re doing alright now. I just re-planted them and hope they’ll grow nicely:

Last weekend, I planted a Mango seed from a Mango we ate. The root is starting to grow and by now is about 0.5 inches (left). The peppermint is a rather slow grower – they’re still tiny little (right). I do hope, however, that the plants will eventually grow. I love peppermint tea and would love to drink it from our own plant.

And last, but not least, I want to show you one of my three Benjamini plants I planted from cut offs at work. It is doing quite well. When I planted it last year, it only had four leaves and now there are various small leaves.

Seeds are sprouting!! 10/03/2011

So, after waiting a couple of days the first seeds showed their faces to us. Tiny little tomato plants on the left and even tinier sage plants on the right:

Today was the arrival of our green tea plant and our bourbon vanilla plant, which are both very cute: