Geek Gardener

Hello there. I'm Matt and I'm a computer geek. My fiancée Nancy
is a big gardening fan and she gets a great suntan pottering around in our
garden dealing with plants and flowers and things whilst I waste away typing.
I have therefore decided to redress that balance by trying to grow something
myself this summer. This site tracks my efforts.

Sun 02 May 2004

Preparation

Filed under: — matts @ 6:00 pm

Here’s the tub before I started piercing holes in it (as per the instructions)

Then I filled it with compost and stuffed the little nasturtium seeds into it, covering them up as I went

And here’s the other one done, together with it’s drip tray. The drip tray is the bit labelled “DRIP TRAY".

And here is the completed assemblage.

My attention then turned to the sunflower seeds. The one at the top of the packet looked a bit skanky so I didn’t plant that one.

And here they both are, finished

I’ve now stashed them in the pantry ("a warm, dark place").

A Gardening Project

Filed under: — matts @ 5:02 pm

Nancy is the greenfingered one and I just tend to kill the plants when she goes away. So I decided to try to learn a bit about plants by buying some from the garden centre that come complete with an idiot’s guide:

These little kits, one called “The Sunny Sunflower", and the other “The Nutty Nasturtium", consist of:

* A plastic tub
* A load of compost
* Some seeds
* A drip tray

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