Vertical Farming

Vertical farming in urban areas continue to fascinate me.
Here are some articles I came across about the progress of the vertical farming movement.
I thought about an idea which I thought was brilliant but of course it had already been thought of and already been done. Great minds think alike though.

http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/11/20/time-magazine-names-valcents-vertical-farming-technology-one-of-top-50-best-innovations-of-2009/

http://www.woodsbagot.com/en/Documents/Public_5_papers/Vertical_farming.pdf

http://www.psmag.com/science-environment/farming-in-high-rises-raises-hopes-3705/

Sunday things

Baby spider that I potted a few days ago in one of my favorite pots from Anthropologie that I got for $5! 

I propagated this snake plant some time last year. Started off with 3 cuttings and now it has a ton of new leaves. It is a very slow growing plant though. zzzzzz.

Taking a walk through my neighborhood and found these new blooms. The flowers look like little bells. Don't know what they're called though. 

Planting my white/yellow plumeria cutting today. The red one rotted so I freaked out and decided I need to plant all of them. I thought my pink one was rotting so I cut it in half.... bad move. It wasn't rotting so I have to wait for it to dry before I do anything with it. I apologized to it, I felt so bad.

You live an you learn...

For the love of G...-- Gardening

Because Spring is just around the corner, I want to start documenting my gardening adventures.

I've been ordering my seeds and bulbs and even came upon a site that sends out FREE seeds from Garden Hoard as long as you pay the postage. For garden enthusiasts, it's very exciting. Though it says allow up to 3 months for seeds to arrive, I'm hoping it will be a lot sooner....

I put my gladiolus bulbs in the ground but they were left overs from last year that I didn't plant so I'm not sure if they will be any good this year.




(photos from last year, via flickr)

I also started bok choi, brussels sprouts and lavender seeds for indoors.

I took the baby spider plants off the mother plant and will pot them over the weekend.



There is new growth on my succulents!!! Just when I thought I had almost killed them all, a cutting I had for months just finally started to grow new leaves.

 I thought when the leaf shriveled, it died for good but when I pulled it out I saw the new leaves!

You can't really tell on this one but the leaf that is tilted, there is an itty bitty baby growing on there. 

I recently met another garden enthusiast and we will be swapping seeds/plants. So very excited for Spring. :)