My Cottagecore Dream Yard Update

Butternut and Crookneck Squashes

Strawberries, potatoes, and green peppers

Dollar Store wildflower mix full sun

Dollar Store wildflower mix shade

Dollar Store wildflower mix shade

So the above pics are all the things I have been doing right in my garden. My flowers are all sprouting and blooming, all of my veggies are doing well, no harvests yet, but looking amazing.

I am so proud of myself for sticking to this project because it is looking so much better than the dirt square that has been there for the last five or so years.

I completed a small project around my tree where the roots were exposed and a massive trip and fall hazard. I also got my grass going in the two tiny spots that I want little bit of soft grass to put my feet on.

So my Snapdragon flowers that I planted all in container plants are also thriving extremely well. I learned a lesson with those though…when I planted the containers with three plants, they started to reproduce plants and flowers faster AND, they produced WAY more new, healthy plant stalks than the same exact plants in a container with only two snapdragon plants. I’ll show you what I mean…

Three turned into six within a month

three turned into six in a month

in two months, two has only turned into three

So yeah, from now on I’m planting multiple flowering plants in a container together, because holy hell, would you look at that reproduction rate difference!

Okay on to the negative lessons…I do not have a single survining sprout from my little greenhouse project. Somehow everything died. I believe I waited too long to plant the sprouts in dirt , so their little pods dried out too fast. Oh well. My next weeks project is to restart all of those seeds again, but i am going to sow them straight into dirt, and leave the pods for another day.

Anyway, that’s the latest update from my garden. I am planning a fall trip to Jamaica with a really close friend and I am finally starting to feel the tiniest glimmer of hope for my future.

Cheers!