A Little Slice of Eden

For the last year I've been using a fairly low dose, relatively balanced fertilizer (along with long periods under grow-lights). I have definitely seen happy plants and happy growth--but I'm longing to get bigger leaves on my philos, epis, and monstera, so yesterday I started a new regimen with Dyna-Grow foliage pro, 9-3-6. It's supposed to have enough calcium in it to cover the job of cal-mag in the garden as well.  (Speaking of which, nearly everything I planted (peppers, eggplant, and tomato seeds) a couple of weeks ago has sprouted!) I'm using Dyna-Grow in the spray bottle for poles and leaves and will be watering with it as well. We shall see....  Also, back to the topic of vegetable seedlings, fingers and toes crossed, I'm watering them with Bonide's Revitalize "biofungal" (anti-fungal) -- so here's to hoping for no damping off this year! (I also have improved on the fan set up in the seed-starting greenhouse). To document my progress, here a...

Two and a half years ago (in the summer of 2020), we moved house. The new place is everything our last house wasn't. It has big, bright, sunny windows (though I could wish for a couple more on the western wall, I appreciate not having windows there in the height of summer!) It also has a spacious back garden that's almost perfect for vegetables (I might rather not have that tree right  in the south....but I do appreciate the shade in summer; it will be a lovely place to set up a table and some chairs, I think). It also has the most amazing dining room that we've finally gotten to use for entertaining (in small numbers, because Covid is still happening).  Last February (February 2021), I wandered into my local English Gardens (which isn't as nice as the one I used to frequent, but the staff are lovely!) and bought a little fiddle leaf fig and a couple of other things.  A week or two later, I bought a "money tree" from Lowe's.  Somewhere along the line, I ac...