Social Distancing Home Gardening
Alright my dear friends. I’ll be honest. This coronacation, corona virus, apocalypse, boomer remover - whatever you want to call it is downright cray. Everyone is buying huge amounts of bread, eggs and toilet paper and hiding out in their houses. People in nursing homes are sad because no one can visit them (parents, please have your children write them a note or draw them something. That would be really nice!). Homeless people are being able to stay in hotels. Restaurants are closed and only drive throughs are open. Universities are moving directly towards online classes. High school seniors aren’t being able to walk in their own graduation which truly does suck. Heroes are becoming more evident than ever: medical staff and those who work in grocery stores and every other necessary place in society.
There’s so much to talk about but I do have a main point I would like to address in this blog: home gardening! You never know what’s going to happen! Teach your kids science! Be amazed at photosynthesis! Stop paying for food you could be growing yourself! You really don’t even need soil. I’m going to show you right here. Lucky you.
Have
you ever seen those Facebook ads of produce being grown in holes of ceramic pipe
structures? It’s easy to make and a very low maintenance way to farm produce. I
could try explaining how to do this with black and white words, but the best way
is to show you the videos, so rest my case. Some of these videos are longer
than others, but who cares? We’re all stuck at home anyways so might as well do
some virtual exploring.
For those
that don’t know, you can literally take a cutting of certain plants and stick
them in a glass of water, and they will root and form entirely new plants.
These plants include pothos, Swedish ivy, fiddle leaf fig, baby’s tears,
impatiens, coleus, grape ivy, African violet, Christmas cactus, polka dot plant,
and creeping fig. I don’t know if you’ve seen those cute, little, empty, upside
down glass bulbs with the plants growing out on them on Pinterest but this is
what that is! A lot of people don’t like to have plants growing inside their homes
because they don’t want the extra dirt, insects and diseases in their houses
but with this, you can lay your head easy at night because as long as you
replace the water, you won’t have any of those nuisances.
Now,
for those who don’t mind a little dirt in their homes – here are some really
cool ideas on how to grow vegetables in your kitchen window sill using soil
during these quarantine hours.
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