Amryn’s Aimless Wanderings

A lot of false starts—I practically killed my pea plants I fussed over due to aphid panic. SO—part II XD

I received tomato and pepper transplants in the mail—I’ve never gotten live plants in the mail before except a tropical fig my cousin sent me. They seem really healthy—not a lot of roots but I hope they’ll grow. Each one is different. 2 of the 4 tomato plants are hanging upside down in strange contraptions I got for my birthday—we’ll see. So 2 tomatos and 2 peppers are in pots together.

Mom got basil that’s struggling a little bit—yellow leaves like the zucchini. I wonder if they’re missing nutrients….

Due to the withered state of the pea plants and a few tragic deaths I bought 6 baby corn plants from Whole Foods to fill the empty space in the pot and my heart XP But what am I going to do with corn?!?!!? They’re growing like weeds—strange narrow, semi-translucent green leaves that look like ornamental bamboo. Really pretty in full sun but I can’t plant them in the ground due to our poor soil so they’ll have to live with pots XD This’ll be interesting…

My lilac is finally budding!! After weeks of steady new green growth after I cut it back over the winter it’s almost ready to bloom. The rosemary continues to grow crazily and the grape leaves are slowly appearing one by one but they aren’t growing any larger. Most are smaller than my palm. All the mint and agrimony miraculously came back. The fruit trees are fruiting and bees are mating. It’s a super heat wave right now during the end of April. We have the cooler on currently for the grandparents XP

The garlic chives are growing strong and clumped close together—but they’re not very thick or tall. I planted some regular chives around the borders to see if that will encourage growth and fill up the space. However, I have tried cutting them back to ~1 in tall and they seem to grow back thicker than before which is encouraging.

Everything is still struggling after the massive aphid invasion. Dad’s cutting back the weeds in the yard but the plum tree seems a little fruit-stunted this year. Yay for summer!