Love that Easter Grass!

Examiner.com is getting better with the ads and pop-ups so hopefully I can get back into promoting it a bit more. Though, April is going to be a busy month for me and I just put up "Growing natural grass in an Easter basket" as a placeholder. After that there are probably going to be a lot of events posts as so many local garden festivals happen in May.

Ah, as for Easter grass. I never grew winter rye specifically for an Easter basket but I do use it for my outdoor pots. I just scatter seeds over the tops of the soil in the pot and let it go. In spring I turn it out into the compost pile and let the grass rot. It doesn’t look very Eastery at that point but the grass did its job (soil conservation and enrichment so I can reuse the soil). I never had real grass in my basket when I was growing up but then I never felt deprived for not having it. I mean, if I had kids I’d grow a basket of live grass for a centerpiece or something but I’d just give them baskets full of the fun fake stuff. I can’t imagine any kid would enjoy loosing jellybeans down in the dirt.

While I’m busy, enjoy this seasonal photo from Maja of stock.xchng. (I promise I’ll get back to my own photos sometime soon!)

Spider Plant Nostalgia Trip

Well, this has been a quiet winter for me over at Examiner.com. The site redesigns over the past few months have been difficult to deal with. The site is problematic to navigate and I'm not comfortable with the types of ads around my work. Even though I don’t get paid much there I wanted it as a place to direct people to when they want to see samples of my work. But, I can’t do that in good faith until it looks a little more professional.

So, this winter I planned to do a series on house plants but only posted “Caring for spider plants” and “How to grow spider plants from cuttings.” When I was growing up there was always a massive spider plant around the house with a million babies. I always wanted to “save” them and ended up with jars full of water and little plants in my room. Surprisingly, I don’t have any spider plants now. Even though I like them a lot I think they will just happen, like kittens. Plus, it is like getting sour dough starter…it starts out innocently enough but then you’ve got a lot of it on your hands.

So, since I don’t have a real spider plant around the house I used this photo by marmit of stock.xchng.