10/29/2013 0 Comments Leafbaby on the RosebabySee this? That's a wee little leaflet on my wee little rosebaby! Several others are also starting to grow tiny little leaf buds, but this is the one with the largest new growth right now. I decided to bring them all in tonight, as it's starting to get cold out after dark. Here's to hoping for more leafy growth! Rosebabies are growing!
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10/28/2013 0 Comments Food for thoughtThis, my friends, is what I like to call Rosebaby food. It is coffee grounds, banana, and crunched up eggshells. Lookin' good! Ok, the roses are all gathered around the windows, globs of baby rose food mixed into their little soil-beds, and covered with their bags so they get a nice mist going in there. And what happens? I get grey skies....
10/23/2013 0 Comments Tuesday and WednesdayThe babies were put to bed - these pictures are just to show how many of them there are and how they've overtaken our house - temporarily, I swear. The scary thing is? These two pictures are not ALL of the rose pots in the house. Only a fraction of them are shown. Can you believe it? A bug has dared to touch one of the rose babies. 10/22/2013 1 Comment The BeginningsFrankly at this point I don't know if I'm doing it right or not. I have done a little bit of gardening before, but unfortunately something always happens to turn my attempts into tiny little plant disasters.
I have some of these rose cuttings stuck in potatoes, because I've heard that works, too, and I've got others I've just put in the dirt after cutting the bottoms of the stems. For pots, I've got several milk cartons with the tops cut off, several cream cheese bowls, and at least two five-gallon ice cream buckets. This is besides all the little and medium planter pots that are actually made for this purpose. Of course, roses need good draining soil, so anything plastic I'm upcycling for this project has had to have holes cut out of the bottom. The roses are currently sitting in baggies, and or overturned soda bottles to form a nice greenhouse, and then situated all over our dining room table at the window. Yes, I did eventually cut off the blossoms so the roots would have a chance to grow. I've also so far added more soil to all the pots, mixed in perlite, dried out used coffee grounds and mixed those in, and next I intend to feed with a little banana peel. My husband says I'm obsessed. My sister-in-law says I'm obsessed. Then again, it's her husband (my brother) who is spraying his new little roselets with epsom salts and aspirin, so I think I'm in good company. |
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