verthandei's Journal

If you want a plant you cannot kill, choose mint. I mean, we all know it is hardy to the point of invasiveness, but it’s still impressive to see it in action. I pulled this mint out of the pineapple sage pot when I repotted some other mint. The other mint I carefully arranged in it’s ...

I planted this chard last year in one of the roma tomato pots. Initially there was oriole and vulcan swiss chard, but the oriole all died. Now that the weather has started to warm up it has started to grow again. The crazy thing is that the older leaves are no longer green but are pretty much the...

Whilst preparing some swappy stuff I ended up planting a bunch of things I have meant to plant for a while. As well as some things I had no intention of planting this year. I only stopped because I ran out of seedling pots. I, um, well… I do have a balcony at work…

One of the few plants I managed not to kill over the winter, even though according to my sister these are hard to keep alive. (When she visited last year she thought it was plastic. Apparently hers always die.) Although this reminds me, I should probably bring it back inside. Before I do kill it.

I’m not exactly sure what I was thinking when I bought these, approximately 1.5 years ago, although I suppose I reasoned that the climate here in the Bay Area was more like the northwest than “inland California” (probably not true). At any rate, I don’t know where I was pl...