Grow Grow Grow

11/10/2024

Market day!!

Join us at Pipeworks Market!

Among the other stalls around us today is a Latin Market (within the market) fundraising for a kitten rescue, and pro wrestling!

And...
We have our cousin joining our stall today, selling animal masks!!

Plants, plant buddies, animal masks!

30/11/2023

Port Jackson fig propogations update:

We have some more seedlings sprouting!
These were propagated by simply shoving fallen ripened fruit into soil in small seedling pots. Surprisingly, we have some seedlings!

This is very confusing though, given we seem to have all sorts of unidentified tree/shrub varieties growing in our lawn. Seemingly anything but baby fig trees! Given how many figs fall onto our lawn, we are very baffled. Maybe they get trampled easily, are too slow growing?

In any case, we are excited to finally have some baby fig trees in our greenhouse

29/11/2023

Sneak peek at the plants and pots chosen for our next homeschooler's market! This time run by Homeschooler's Makers Market.

Come see us this Sunday, 3rd December, 11am-3pm. Gembrook Community Centre, 4 Gembrook Rd, Gembrook.
There'll be over 60 family stallholders, handmade crafts, gifts, and food. Live performances and more!

27/11/2023

A young praying mantis eating ants on our parrot beak plant.
The ants like to eat the nectar from the flowers, we think. There's always ants visiting the flowers.
This little guy actually walked across CJ's foot, as we trimmed some fresh cuttings. So we carried him back to the plant.

26/11/2023

**Edit: all sold!
Fresh Parrot beak propagations are on the way 😊[smile].
We still have loads of Jade plants (from $2!), and spider plants for sale, with or without decorative pots.***

Parrot beak impatiens plants!

$5 each!

They've grown too big to take to market, come get a bargain!

Indoor or outdoors, part shade. These sale plants have all been indoors, and thriving. 3rd photo is of our outdoor plant provided as an example of an outdoor plant.

Pick up Reservoir.

13/11/2023

Our next market. Come say hi!

There was loads of lovely and amazing things for sale last time. The kids are all very clever

It's back! Home Ed in the North is here to run another Magnificent Mixed Market!

Stalls for gifts, clothes, plants, toys, and more, there's something for everyone.

Come along on Sunday 26th November from 11am to 2pm.

12/11/2023

Plants in pots for sale!

They are all spider plants.

They get tricky to take to market sometimes, so why not come get one now?

Prices from $5. I have put individual prices in the picture comments.

MJ also still has lots of jade plants in nursery pots only (not decorative pots). $2 each.

Pick up Reservoir.

-KJ (MJ's moth/parent. MJ has asked me to take care of the plants for a bit, while they focus on making plant buddies with their sibling CJ.

12/11/2023

Two weeks until my next market!

Sneak peek at my parrot plants.

30/09/2023

We're here!

Kids Clay and Grow Grow Grow , with our plants and plant buddies!

Plant potting experience is all set up for kids, pay how you like

28/09/2023

Step one of finding out what Port Jackson fig seedlings actually look like!

27/09/2023

So... what we thought were Port Jackson fig saplings, look suspiciously like the mandarin tree in our backyard, and not at all like the Port Jackson fig in our backyard.

Woops!!

But on the plus side, mandarin trees!

Image description in comments.

27/07/2023

I put apple seeds in the fridge to stratify them, while I was on holiday.
When I got home, we took them out of the fridge. Then I forgot about them!

Stratify is when you need specific conditions for a seed to germinate. Apple seeds need cold weather, like winter.