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Well, it's still only January, but I've started gathering things for this year's growing season. I think I may have gotten a little ambitious. But the seed packets look so interesting!

So far I've gotten more brandywine tomato seeds, some multicolored cherry tomato seeds, some watermelon seeds, more snap bean seeds, some poppyseed seeds, some sage seeds, and some onion seeds. I'm also going to dig up the packet of pumpkin seeds I have and try growing pumpkins again.

I've also started saving egg cartons to use as teeny seed cups so hopefully I can start growing things a few weeks before the last frost. I think I may try doing some actual garden-growing as opposed to doing everything in pots. It's probably going to require several bags of topsoil and other soil things, as, well, this is North Carolina. Our soil is CRAP. It's all red clay, which most foodstuff plants don't like. So we'll see how this goes.

On a different note, I finished a hat I made for Dad! It's always so satisfying when I finish a knitting project.

Speaking of knitting projects, the second Dalek is nearing completion! Its body is done, so all I need to do now is weave in the ends, give it some appendages, stuff it, and knit up the bottom. I'm calling it Dalek Redshirt, for reasons that will become apparent when I take pictures. <3

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[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am going to hold off doing my container garden this year because there's a good chance we'll be moving right in the middle of the growing season (depending on when and where I get a job after graduation). I am sad, but there's no way I want to have to cut down plants mid-growth or attempt to move soil filled pots in the middle of summer.

I'm going to miss gardening. ;_;

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

Awwww. ;_; I can understand the need to hold off, though. Just trying to cart the five or so plants I kept in my dorm room at State home and back during holidays was an exercise in balance and nail-biting.