For the next two weeks, Iain and Ria will be away on vacation, so I'm trying to get as much planting as possible done now, so that Iain can participate. Yesterday we put together a little mint garden, but Iain instead opted to stay indoors and play with the dollhouse. Oh, well.
Our mint garden is mostly comprised of donations. A friend of mine over the weekend gave us three huge garden pots, one of which makes a perfect container for mint. Another friend donated two different kinds of mint to us (one I believe is peppermint, and the other we are calling mystery fuzzy mint. Josephine and I planted the two mints in the large container, along with a third one that we already had. It's chocolate mint, and I've had it for quite a while now. It died from neglect at some point, but then miraculously sprang back to life. After we planted the three plants, Josephine gave them all a good dose of water.
Next we planted spearmint seeds all around the rest of the pot. The seeds were so teeny-tiny that it seems incredible that actual plants wil be springing out of them.
Later in the morning, after Josephine left for school, I took out the second greenhouse, which I had been saving to make with Iain. He was only slightly more interested and excited than he was about the mint . . . that is, until I pulled out . . . a power tool! Now I definitely had his full attention, and together we constructed the greenhouse in record time. He was excellent at pushing the button on the screwdriver.
Our mint garden is mostly comprised of donations. A friend of mine over the weekend gave us three huge garden pots, one of which makes a perfect container for mint. Another friend donated two different kinds of mint to us (one I believe is peppermint, and the other we are calling mystery fuzzy mint. Josephine and I planted the two mints in the large container, along with a third one that we already had. It's chocolate mint, and I've had it for quite a while now. It died from neglect at some point, but then miraculously sprang back to life. After we planted the three plants, Josephine gave them all a good dose of water.
Next we planted spearmint seeds all around the rest of the pot. The seeds were so teeny-tiny that it seems incredible that actual plants wil be springing out of them.
And here is the finished mint garden! The pot is placed right next to the rosemary, and we hope to eventually add other herbs, such as oregano, chives, thyme, parsley, and sage, so we can create an herb garden.
Later in the morning, after Josephine left for school, I took out the second greenhouse, which I had been saving to make with Iain. He was only slightly more interested and excited than he was about the mint . . . that is, until I pulled out . . . a power tool! Now I definitely had his full attention, and together we constructed the greenhouse in record time. He was excellent at pushing the button on the screwdriver.
1 comment:
Iain does like power tools, yep indeedy.
I'm glad to see you've got the mint in a planter, or else you'd have a garden full of mint and not much else.
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