2025 OneThing #14 - Plant Stuff

I wrote "Deal w/ plants, seeds, dirt, and pots."

 

Plants - I am NOT a "green thumb" person. The live plants we have are more my husband's thing. However, it drives me a little crazy to see them looking scruffy, so I often gather up dead leaves. I didn't do before and after photos because they still don't look so great!

 

Seeds - I LOVE having fresh basil to add to dishes! My basil plant was thriving until Titus and Pond knocked it over during a fit of barking at dogs passing by on their walk last fall. I gathered up what I could, but for the last three months it has been a pot of dirt with dead stems sticking up. I bought a new packet of basil seeds (more than a month ago). I was in my metal seed storage container for something else and found . . . a packet of basil seeds (from 2016). Being curious, I freshened up my pot of dirt and planted half with the new seeds and half with the old. (The new ones are on the side closest to the stick thing that tells you how to care for basil.) I did NOT plant the seeds six inches apart. I just spread some around and if they germinate and are too thick, I'll pull some. This took me about ten minutes but I've been intending to do it for quite a long time.

 

Dirt - I needed to add dirt to some plants, most especially the aloe veras. I did take before and after photos of the little one I keep on my window sill. I removed the dead "leaves" and added dirt. (It looked like it was sinking down into the pot and the dirt was evaporating!)

 

Please ignore the filthy windows . .  . that can be a task for a different day.

 

 

Pots - When I got rid of the dead tomato plant and the dead pepper plant and other stuff last FALL, I put the pots of dirt onto the porch to "deal with." It's March now and they've been sitting there all winter! I asked my sister Ann about using old dirt vs. new dirt and decided to reuse some of it today in the aloe vera plants. The rest got dumped into a five gallon bucket for future use. After storing away the bucket of dirt and the empty pots, I cleaned up the areas where I worked and am blogging on Saturday before noon! 

 

Please note that this stuff has been bugging me for a really long time, but it took less than an hour to deal with it. That makes me think of my mom saying, "If you just did the chores I asked you instead of belly aching about it, you'd be done by now!" True, Mom. True. I guess the One Thing and blogging is now my mom voice.