Just trying it out and seeing what works for me and what doesn't. I now have an account on:
MySpace: http://ping.fm/kgY60
Digg: http://ping.fm/kEvDD
Delicious: http://ping.fm/6bmVq
FaceBook: email/PM me and I'll give you the email
PicasaWeb: http://ping.fm/hiQj1
Flickr: http://ping.fm/L14AQ
last.fm: http://ping.fm/C5e1y
FriendFeed: http://ping.fm/6cFV8
Tell me yours and I'll add you to whatever I can, or just add me back. Some of these I obiously haven't had a chance to customize very well or add much content onto, but if I have it here it's because I think it somehow looks useful and intend to add to it as I'm able. I can already tell last.fm is going to get a lot of use; Delicious has totally replaced bookmarks and favorites on my browser (there are a ton of work-from-home links there FYI); and I can already tell that Digg will be useful in bookmarking good articles where Delicious isn't.
My MySpace is kind of dead as I'm never on it anymore, but I'm also in the process of figuring out Bloglines, which now supports authenticated feeds, wherein I can possibly consolidate everyone on MySpace AND everyone on LiveJournal, Facebook and maybe even Twitter all in one place, a well as everyone else's blogs and such.
In the vein of consolidating efforts, I'm using Ping.fm to post this, which has made my life a lot easier by posting my stuff to everything everywhere. Time management ftw!
Anyway, show me your social bookmarking links and whatnot, so we can be, you know, social!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
My garden space.
First, an introduction.
I live in a very small one-bedroom apartment in an apartment row on the busiest street in Miami, FL. I love to garden, but am limited by my living surroundings, hence this blog. We have a small courtyard with room for a nice sized garden. Unfortunately, though, it faces north and gets almost no direct sunlight, so any vegetable or fruit or flower bearing plant simply... doesn't. It will thrive and grow large, but it won't grow any fruit. There's just not enough sun.
I've landscaped the front as best as I could - it used to be totally bare, but now it's a nice front entrance to my and my grandmother's apartments. We've put ferns there, and some partial shade-friendly plants like a few herbs, and I did grow a few tomatoes here and there, but it's not at all adequate for a garden. The banana plant on the left has been growing, banana-free and glacier-paced, for over a year. It's pretty overall, but I need to do some research about what will grow in partial shades. It's a bit over-ferned, IMHO.
The back of my house holds a little more promise. There is an empty little corner near the back that gets a lot of sun. Currently I have a very neglected hibiscus and a thriving enormous bromeliad sitting there. Clearly, it is not being used to its fullest potential, container-gardening-wise. It faces east. I am not able to plant anything in the ground because my landlord has people come mow the lawn every first of the month and they pretty much mow over anything in their path, but I think this area could definitely stand a few containers.
Then there's the back of my apartment, which is very sunny, facing the south all day. I have some large steps and I would say about 30 square feet total. Again, I'm not able to plant anything in the ground because of the people who mow the lawn, but even if I could, I wouldn't, because in Miami, everything is a filled-in swamp land. There is only a foot or three of soil and the rest is rocks and sand.
This area would be GREAT for container gardening, except that it's in a back alley way, near the garbage dumpster, i.e., fruits and veggies would be prone to pests, and also, people sometimes use it as a temporary parking space or to move out of the way for an oncoming car in the narrow alley, on the occasions when the fools who drive around in my neighborhood do not realize that a 9' wide alley way is not, in fact, a two-way street.
Over the next couple of months, I'm going to be plotting how to best maximize the 50 square feet of space or so that I have. I'm a big fan of Square Foot Gardening, and I do, in theory, have a 4'x4' space out back, but I also know that method could be adapted to any size or irregular-shaped space.
I live in a very climate-specific region, too, so I need to research what kinds of plants do well in my area. I like Stark Bros because they have a lot of plants available for people with small spaces and container gardens and tell you exactly what regions support what plants. But anyway, that's my garden space for now. Hopefully this blog will be a document of its slow transformation. :)
I live in a very small one-bedroom apartment in an apartment row on the busiest street in Miami, FL. I love to garden, but am limited by my living surroundings, hence this blog. We have a small courtyard with room for a nice sized garden. Unfortunately, though, it faces north and gets almost no direct sunlight, so any vegetable or fruit or flower bearing plant simply... doesn't. It will thrive and grow large, but it won't grow any fruit. There's just not enough sun.
I've landscaped the front as best as I could - it used to be totally bare, but now it's a nice front entrance to my and my grandmother's apartments. We've put ferns there, and some partial shade-friendly plants like a few herbs, and I did grow a few tomatoes here and there, but it's not at all adequate for a garden. The banana plant on the left has been growing, banana-free and glacier-paced, for over a year. It's pretty overall, but I need to do some research about what will grow in partial shades. It's a bit over-ferned, IMHO.
The back of my house holds a little more promise. There is an empty little corner near the back that gets a lot of sun. Currently I have a very neglected hibiscus and a thriving enormous bromeliad sitting there. Clearly, it is not being used to its fullest potential, container-gardening-wise. It faces east. I am not able to plant anything in the ground because my landlord has people come mow the lawn every first of the month and they pretty much mow over anything in their path, but I think this area could definitely stand a few containers.
Then there's the back of my apartment, which is very sunny, facing the south all day. I have some large steps and I would say about 30 square feet total. Again, I'm not able to plant anything in the ground because of the people who mow the lawn, but even if I could, I wouldn't, because in Miami, everything is a filled-in swamp land. There is only a foot or three of soil and the rest is rocks and sand.
This area would be GREAT for container gardening, except that it's in a back alley way, near the garbage dumpster, i.e., fruits and veggies would be prone to pests, and also, people sometimes use it as a temporary parking space or to move out of the way for an oncoming car in the narrow alley, on the occasions when the fools who drive around in my neighborhood do not realize that a 9' wide alley way is not, in fact, a two-way street.
Over the next couple of months, I'm going to be plotting how to best maximize the 50 square feet of space or so that I have. I'm a big fan of Square Foot Gardening, and I do, in theory, have a 4'x4' space out back, but I also know that method could be adapted to any size or irregular-shaped space.
I live in a very climate-specific region, too, so I need to research what kinds of plants do well in my area. I like Stark Bros because they have a lot of plants available for people with small spaces and container gardens and tell you exactly what regions support what plants. But anyway, that's my garden space for now. Hopefully this blog will be a document of its slow transformation. :)
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