Today we’re off to Baltimore to visit with Erin! Erin is a busy mother of three but somehow manages to grow a beautiful garden and share lots of photos of her successes (and sometimes failures) on her instagram @aterinshouse
A perfectly grown tomato seedling! Starting your own tomatoes from seed can be tricky, but Erin has clearly mastered it. She gives all the credit to good grow lights. Lots of light makes for healthy seedlings and happy plants.
The next stage of a tomato: a flower bud about to open.
After the tomato flower fades, the new tomato is just beginning to form.
These big green tomatoes will shortly be turning ripe and delicious.
The stump of a bunch of celery is taking on new life! After Erin placed the stump in a little water and gave it plenty of sun, it put up new leaves and is growing new roots. Has anyone in the GPOD audience tried this?
A brilliant idea—old photo binders repurposed to hold seed packets! This is such a great way to keep seed packets organized.
Dutch irises (Iris × hollandica, Zones 5–9). These hybrid forms of bulbous irises are planted in the fall, the same as daffodils or tulips, and they reward you with these gorgeous graceful blooms in the spring.
Erin says that her lovely English roses can be a lot of work to keep healthy and happy but that they are worth it for the beautiful flowers.
All the plants in this photo are carefully labeled—including the “mystery plant”! I think every gardener has had a mystery plant when we have forgotten that we planted something or have lost a label. I know there are a lot in my garden. It looks to me like the mystery plant might be a marigold (Tagetes species, annual), but time will tell for sure. Taking pictures and labeling them like this is a great way to minimize the number of mystery plants in the garden, since these labels won’t fade or get carried off by squirrels the way physical tags in the garden will.
And finally, a handful of health in the form of kale fresh from the garden.
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