Gardening update - September 19, 2016

The first thing I want to do is apologize for being so inactive over the last six months or so. I am pretty sure I posted this on Facebook, but here it is for those of you here.

Jenn and I had split up back in February and I moved in with a friend. Most of my plants went to Jenn's place and a lot of the seedlings went into the trash/compost bucket. I took a few here with me, but only two have survived and one of those is on its last leg, as well.

The two that I have now are a tomato plant (not sure which one) and a pepper plant. Both are in small plastic cups. The tomato plant has lost all of its leaves and is in its death throes.

I had a small basil cutting from the original basil plant, but that died for unknown reasons.

I had tomato plants in 2L Coke bottles, but those also died because I forgot to cut drainage holes and they drowned in a typhoon.

Simply put, most everything has died due to neglect as I focused my time and attention on rebuilding my life.

The plants at Jenn's house

As for the plants at Jenn's house, those are mostly dead, as well. I had asked that they water them, but obviously that was too much to ask and just about everything there died, as well.

I am planning to move into my own place soon and when I do I will restart my garden.

I have a drawer full of seeds that I have been collecting over time, so I should get a good headstart.

The grape experiment

A few months back we had purchased some grapes in the store. They were pretty big grapes and I saved a lot of seeds. I tried to sprout them, but with no luck. I found out later that the reason is because grape seeds need to go through a cold period before they will sprout.  In short, I should have put them in the fridge for a couple of months to simulate winter. Oh well. Lesson learned.

In conclusion

As I said, when I move into my own place I will restart my gardening efforts. So, there will be more to come. Just give me a few months to get there. Also, all those videos I took from before I split with Jenn, I will make an effort to get those uploaded to YouTube.