r2girls design » our garden

Egg Carton Garden

Sonia Powell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:07:31 +0000

I’m not sure where I got this idea. I’m sure I saw it somewhere. But, as I was finishing a carton of eggs this morning, I thought it might be a great idea to use the carton as a nursery. I have a few succulents who grow babies along the tips and ends of their leaves. It was time for me to pluck the babies off and plant them in some soil. The carton got a little soggy after I watered the little babes, so I nestled the garden in the lid of the carton that I had cut off. Wish me luck! We’ll see how this works out!

Here are the mommies. See the babies around the edges and tips of the leaves?

Here is one garden of mommies and their flock of babes.

Here is my egg carton nursery! Everyone seems pretty comfy for now.

wiggly swiggly

Sonia Powell — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:23:38 +0000

for over a year now, i’ve been seriously thinking about honestly considering maybe starting to compost. it seems like the socially conscious thing to do. we do a lot of cooking here and tons of gardening. it’s almost a no brainer… right? at first it seemed like too much dirty smelly work. you have to go out there and stir it once in a while and water it. and where would we put a huge stinky bin? the valuable far away corners of our yard were quickly being filled.

i don’t remember where i first heard about worm bins, but, on mother’s day i went to the san diego county fair with my family where my mom led us to a little table between the turkey races and the camel milking demonstration. we ending up talking to a man about worm bins. and the reality of composting became a little more attainable.

now the only thing that was holding me back was the price. worm bins can go for up to $90! way too much. you can, i’m told, make your own. you can get some of those huge tupperware storage boxes from target and drill holes in the bottom. like this or this.

BUT, guess what i just found out! los angeles residents can get a worm bin for $5! (there’s a few other composting bins you can get for a discounted price) AND! the composting educational facility (who knew!) in griffith park offers a free workshop every fourth saturday from 10am to noon. i’m going to check it out next saturday and i’ll let you know what i find. here’s the website that talks about it.

here’s some further readin’, if you’re interested.
* here *
* here *
* here *
* and here *

our search for jars

Sonia Powell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:17:26 +0000

the passion fruit are starting to drop off the vine by the dozens. it’s literally sprinkling passionfruits over here! it’s great but we need to start canning them before they go bad. we started our long and arduous task of looking for mason jars. and we finally found them! who’d thunk that it would be so difficult to find canning jars. we looked at food 4 less, target, smart n final, osh, and a few other places that i just can’t think of right now. we were out running errands one day and thought we could just pop into a store and find their vast selection of mason jars at our finger tips, ready to be scooped up. after going into three, we gave up, went home and started calling around. and guess where we finally found them… gelson’s. weird, right.

so, we have the jars now. all we have to do is make the sauce! i’ll let you know what our process is for that when we do it.

passiflora edulis

Sonia Powell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:15:04 +0000

it’s the beginning of passionfruit season! this is the first year that we’ve gotten any fruit. with the last weeks’ heat, tons of them have ripened and are now falling off the vine. soon we’re going to have to break out our canning gear!