yesterday: intensive gardening on the balcony

[eub]

Bought pots. The Indoor Sun doesn't stock rhizobial bacteria, so I hope my legumes get lucky without my help. (They do stock an endomycorrhizal inoculant, but although I don't know whether I should giggle dismissively at the "40 spores/cc" fine print, I do.)

Strung a web of saffron nylon twine between my railing and the balcony above.

Washed the glass of the sliding door. Twice. It's rather better than it was.

Sowed mustard greens, pole beans, snap peas, morning glories (two pots), and what Thompson and Morgan calls "asparagus pea" and Tetragonolobus purpureus, which I hope is synonymous with Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, the winged bean. The seed packet mug shot looked like winged bean. The Internet is murky, but signs point to yes.

If I were on a higher floor, I could see over the neighboring building to the Olympic mountains, but on this floor I have trees, a holly (I think) off the end of the balcony and some presumed Rosacea which would grow into the living room if I knocked out the windowpane. It's blooming madly, and my very happy fritillary too.

Maybe I need a gardening userpic.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh, you should've said. I have rhizobial bacteria.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Alas. Think they would be of any use in the water?

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure not, if it's just watered on top of the soil. Could try making deep holes to pour them into, though. It's last year's inoculant and I don't need it this year, so we might as well use it experimentally.

[katybeth]

You scared me, when you said you'd planted morning glories, until I saw that this was in pots high off the ground. Those things are IMPOSSIBLE to get rid of.

[eub.livejournal.com]

And they could drop seed down, but all the ground below is drowned under a foot of English ivy. I only wish they'd strangle that.