Rootbound
Arms, wrists and hands were hurting all damned day so I didn't do much during the day. Iced my right arm and watched "Mad Men". Also watched the "Pie-lette" of "Pushing Daisies". Finally capitulated and took a nap in the early evening. Paula's sick so we didn't go to sing at Martuni's. (Joe Collins is the pianist on Mondays and I want to do that as much as I can before I go back to work).
I have all these new plants that have been staring at me for up to 2 weeks (some less than that). Most important was a Passiflora incarnata that I paid bux for mail order. I'm always bad about planting. There's not only the dilemma of whether I feel I can afford more potting soil (but I daren't use regular dirt in case it introduces disease), but it's a hand-intensive activity, particularly if I'm planting in the ground. The maypop hadn't arrived in that great a shape in the first place and staying in its teensy transport pot for a couple days wasn't helping. It stared at me looking mighty peakéd. I forced myself to ignore the pain and get potting.
- potted maypop.
- potted the 3 hanging baskets that have been hanging empty for months with the Alpine strawberries I bought a fortnight ago and which have been the worse for wear for staying on the front porch in small pots being dehydrated by the wind... Added some misc. flowers I got on special from Westbrae. They were on the "Death's Door" shelf and of course I left them in their 6-packs even longer. We'll see whether SuperThrive can bring them back to life. I was too cheap to buy another Alpine strawberry for the 3rd basket so I went out to the yard and dug up one of the MANY Fragaria chiloensis runners that are establishing themselves in my no-mow lawn.
- Added a bit of organic fertilizer in all pots, watered in with SuperThrive.
- took pictures of the potted stuff so I'd remember when I actually got around to planting them.
- mailed seeds to Davesgarden.com trading partner.
- mailed registration for the Fall Master Gardeners seminar.
- had phone interview with MG.
If all goes well with my job limbo situation, I shall be a member of the Alameda County Master Gardener class of 2008
