My balcony was a prime-time hang-out last summer. I had updated my balcony ikea chairs, and had tried (and failed) to grow a veggie container garden. However, since it has been more than a year, my balcony was showing some signs of neglect, observe the terrifying before photos:
Every time I went out there I had the sinking feeling that I was intruding on Spider Territory (Capitalized, that's how serious it was...). When I wasn't on-guard against Shelob, I was disheartened to see the corpses of my dead veggies still in their pots. Time for a fresh start to welcome in the spring midsummer.
My first job was to re-pot my new plants. I got two new (shade-loving) plants for my birthday from my dear fiance. And this weekend I pickup up four little herb plants with my birthday money from my grandparents (thank you!). All my plants were still in their garden-store mini-pots and were yearning for an upgrade. I choose pots I already owned that looked like they would be a good size for each of them.
(Clockwise from top left: Cilantro, Sweet Basil,
Italian Parsley, and Rosemary)
Then I re-potted. For those of you who have never re-potted a plant, it is about as easy as it sounds. After re-potting two of the plants I remembered that you are supposed to 'loosen the root ball' before you set it down in the new pot. I adjusted and continued on.
(You can spot some plant corpses on the left)
I then removed the dirt from all my old plants, consolidated the unused dirt into a single pot and stacked up my unused pots, and generally tidied up the rest of the plant shelf.
Then I went to town sweeping. I normally can't get too excited about something as futile as sweeping outside, but I have to admit it made a huge improvement.
Now that the dust, dead plants and the most terrifying of the spider webs are gone I can sit back and enjoy my own little slice of outdoor LA.
1 comment:
it looks quite lovely, there is nothing better (in my little mind) that a spot of outdoor living to enjoy!
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