I just learned about the 2006 Golden Gate Chapter Scion Exchange/Grafting Workshop from laurenandray‘s post on the gardening community.
That’s today!!!… I so want to go since I’ve always wanted to learn how to graft. It’s in San Francisco, which is about 45 minutes to a hour away (with traffic)… so I’m going to get myself to bed and try not to sleep in. Hopefully, I’ll make it.
Sounds like fun!… and I’ll see other gardenin’ folks :) Can you tell I’m excited?
Hi Gardening Friends :) I have so much to post, but I’m so sleepy so I’m just going to share two photos of some Japanese Anemone seeds I found. Don’t they look like white strawberries?
These were found next to the KGO-TV building in San Francisco and were ready to be blown away. I’m planning to see if they will grow in the spring.
I’ll write more from work tomorrow.
I got my order from Evergreen Seeds.
I also got more videos from the library:
– Yardening: How to Grow Warm-Weather Vegetables (with Jeff Ball)
– Yardening: How to Grow Plants in a Greenhouse (with Jeff Ball)
– YardWorks!: New Gardening Techniques for the 90’s (with Melinda Myers)
I finally found another Smith & Hawkins BioStack Compost Bin for sale on a Craigs List ad. I sent an email out and it was available… so I drove about 45 minutes away in the rain and picked it up in Pleasanton. It came with some extras, was never used and a good deal at $45.
Once I got home from work and MacWorld, I return my videos to the city library and borrowed more books:
– Jeff Cox’s 100 Greatest Garden Ideas by (duh?) Jeff Cox
– Who Named the Daisy? Who Named the Rose? by Mary Durant
– Apartment 3-A Mariposa St. by Fanny A. Garcia (a short book written in Tagalog)
I also got two more videos:
– Yardening: How to Grow & Nurture Seedling
– Yardening: How to Grow Cool-Weather Vegetables
Both in the Yardening series with Jeff Ball
I was able to leave work early to go to the MacWorld San Francisco 2006 Expo. The new Intel Mac look pretty impressive, but I don’t want to get one just yet, since it’s still in it’s infancy. I want iLife ’06 and the new version of EyeTV, though.
After the expo, as I walked over to the casual carpool line, I snapped photos. In addition to plant photos, I also like snapping up numbers, urinals, fire hydrants and street art (i.e. posters, graffiti, stickers, etc.). I don’t really post these photos, but think I should.
My “paid” Flickr account just contains plant and gardening related photos, but I think I will start using it for the above mentioned photos as well as friends, family and work photos, since I don’t want to buy another “separate” Flickr account. I’m going to stew this over and decide later. I’m going to continue to make this LiveJournal mostly plant and gardening specific though, with a few daily life thoughts here and there.
I had some time to kill at work and did some seed shopping online:
I ordered these Asian herbs and veggie at Evergreen Seeds:
– Large Leaf Korean Perilla – Coleus-like Perilla with a unique flavor between mint and basil
– Tia To Vietnamese Perilla – Green color leaves with purplish red on the back
– Red Stripe Leaf Amaranth – Edible large green leaves with red stripes
– All Red Edible Amaranth – Edible all red leaves
– Mino Early Daikon Radish – A long-time Japanese Daikon Radish favorite
– Smooth Beauty Luffa – Light green skinned edible Luffa
– Maiko Garland Chrysanthemum – Edible Asian Greens
– Thai Lemon Basil – Thai Hoary Basil
I also ordered these hard-to-find and usual plants at Amishland Heirloom Seeds:
– Strawberry Spinach – (Chenopodium capitatum) Spinach and Strawberries in one
– Sikkim Cucumber – (Cucumis sativus var. sikkimensis) Cantaloupe-like Cucumber
– Brandywine OTV Tomato – A sub variety of the famous Brandywine Tomato
– Scarlet Chinese Eggplant – (Solanum integrifolium) Miniature Pumpkins-like fruits
– Great White Tomato – Big white Beefsteaks