Plants have always been therapeutic for me. You can never have too many plants, especially flowers. Who doesn’t love flowers?
I want to introduce you to my beautiful plants! I am overly excited about having plants that I can grow. I don’t exactly have a green thumb. I am optimistic this year with the plants I have acquired this spring. I am dedicated to not killing these plants. These plants are an essential part of my plant therapy.
I am trying three different methods of seeding this year. I have some gardening knowledge that I learned during my childhood. Although, it has been a long time since I have gardened. Since adulthood, I haven’t been able to grow a successful garden. Every time I tried; it would get destroyed somehow. One time, it was because we had a housefire. I felt like it was a sign from the universe that it was time to give up. However, I am stubborn and want to try again this year.
My first method of seeding was planting the seeds and wait for them to germinate into plants. I planted two vegetables (cucumbers, bell peppers) and two flowers (black eyed susans, morning glory). I threw a random flower mix into a pot I had laying around just for funsies. It has been about eight weeks since I planted the seeds in the soil. The outcome was half and half. I only got cucumbers, morning glory, and the flower mix. I will take that as a win.
Method number two is an experiment. I have never grown anything from kitchen scraps. I planted some sweet pepper ends into some small pots I had on hand. I planted six ends into two separate pots. Only two of the sweet peppers popped up. I recently transplanted them into four little pots to flourish into bigger pepper plants.
The third method of seeding was skipping the seeding process completely and buying premade plants from our local Walmart. I wanted to make sure to at least have two plants for my plant therapy this summer. I bought a banana pepper and zucchini plant. I found a snake plant at our community’s plant library. It is a houseplant. Our plant community is amazing at sharing extra plants and seeds, among other items needed for gardening. My last premade plant was a beautiful gift from my son, Wes. It is a mystery plant brought home from school from a Mother’s Day project. The only information I received from him when he brought it home was, he planted a seed and his teacher watered it for him. Explains a lot, doesn’t it? I feel obligated as a mother to keep this mystery flower alive till it blooms.
Fingers have been crossed and I have spoken to Mother Nature about blessing my green thumb. You will be able to follow my gardening journey this summer with my gardening series. I plan on giving an update every two weeks. We can keep these plants alive together! Make sure you subscribe to keep up with the updates.
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