2026, My year of Garden Narcissism

[heirloomgal]

It's not a glazed ceramic pot, but I like it anyway.
I KNOW that plastic pots are really the very best for most plants, BUT, I adore pretty ceramic pots, and the price just keeps climbing on them.
I picked up 4 blue ceramic pots, 3 different sizes, with texture, at Dollar General last month, then they were gone.
That's kind of how it is--you grab what you like When you see it before they are gone.

I love the ceramic pots too ducks, so elegant and pretty.

 

[Dahlia]

It's not a glazed ceramic pot, but I like it anyway.
I KNOW that plastic pots are really the very best for most plants, BUT, I adore pretty ceramic pots, and the price just keeps climbing on them.
I picked up 4 blue ceramic pots, 3 different sizes, with texture, at Dollar General last month, then they were gone.
That's kind of how it is--you grab what you like When you see it before they are gone.

I bet ceramic pots are a healthier choice than plastic pots.

 

[flowerbug]

I bet ceramic pots are a healthier choice than plastic pots.

there's a lot of questions you need to ask about those too, like where were they made and did they use lead or whatever else in the glaze and what's in the clay and ...

 

[Dahlia]

there's a lot of questions you need to ask about those too, like where were they made and did they use lead or whatever else in the glaze and what's in the clay and ...

This is totally true!

 

[baymule]

Strawberries! You need to fill that pot up!

 

[ducks4you]

Needed to go into town to pick up my orders of cat food and Nature's Miracle, dog, to make the basement smell better. Tegan went into heat and forGOT that she was house trained, and figured I wouldn't notice in the basement or the 2nd floor. I.Noticed.
Before I left there was a Great Victory!! I Finally got a handyman (small company actually) to install a good padlock on the inside door to the basement!!!!
This has been a BBBBIIIIIIIGGGGGG problem for a few years. The outside steel door really doesn't lock anymore, hence my house has been open to burgling for a few years now, but not anymore.
The employee took pictures of my other doors to give me estimates on replacing them, too.
I stopped at WM (1 of 3 in town, since there are triple cities, grown together) and found strawberries to fill in my pot.
They were selling every bearing in a pot of 4 ($15.00), but then I noticed that individual plants, each with a runner, were going for $2.50, in fact one of those plants had 2 runners. So, I bought, essentially, 9 plants for $10.30
They are now sitting in water in a big muck bucket awaiting transplanting.
I also took the tag on one of my blueberries to match a pollinator, which I found at Rural King, so I am back to 3 blueberry bushes to transplant next week.
Also, I called my friend who has done our taxes for years to ask about signing for an extension, but he had alReady signed that For me. That was Really nice!
I have been wearing out a pair of slip on sneakers, so I bought a new pair to wear when I go out, and kept the other ones to wear when I take Tegan out.
Yesterday I gave myself a nice blister on my hand using my new reciprocating saw, trying to cut dead branches on my dead cherry tree and a couple of live branches on my 2 Johnagold Apple trees.
Jeez!!! I didn't think about fruit trees being HARDWOOD--now I know better.
I got the cuts and some other logs in my tow wagon and it's in my she shed awaiting bagging up for middle DD. She will pick these up after our Easter meal on Sunday, along with used stall bedding to put in her new aluminum raised bed, 8' long, 4' wide, 3' deep. Doing some cardboard bottom Hugelkulture and mulch and dried manure and dried and urine soaked bedding to fill in the first 1/4 of it, then soil.
She lives some 2 hours away, so this is the best time to give it away.

 

[ducks4you]

I came upon maybe the best photo of my Arabian, "Corporal,", (1982-2007, RIP) He was always a hard keeper, but in 1992, not so much...