Posts Tagged ‘plants’

new plant

22Apr08

It’s not exactly THAT new. I got it last week when I went to the IKEA at Kungens Kurva. I think it’s a jade plant but as you can see the leaves are not entirely green. I think it might be a different variety of the jade plants I have already at home. I know [...]

I got this nifty little sprout growing device from Bauhaus today.
Yes, there is a store called Bauhaus. In fact, it is a hardware store, a hardware store that is more like Home Depot. Pretty cool name.
Anyways.
So I got this nifty sprout growing device. You spread the seeds out on to this meshy tray and put [...]

When Fredrik was home, we went to a gardening centre/store to get something to deal with the fungus gnats that was causing havoc in our flat. We got some yellow sticky traps. The flies are apparently drawn to yellow. We also got some biologically friendly spray that is supposed to kill the adults and the [...]

stupid flies

13Dec07

My largest jade plant is infested with fungus gnats. They’re these little black flies that are not too bright. For those of you who grow plants indoors will know about these stupid little black flies.
Anyways. So my largest jade plant is infested with these stupid bugs and they’re driving me quite mad. I’ve sprayed the [...]

I ate the tofu that I bought from the Japanese shop. It tasted… different from what I’m normally used to. Mind you, I also made it different from how my mom made it.
1 carton of tofu, cut up bits of beef, spinach, soy & chicken bouillon
The tofu was really… soy bean tasting. I suppose it [...]

Today’s plans include the following:

laundry (doing that already)
tidying the flat (kind of started)
picking up some groceries (although that might be held off till tomorrow because no deliveries on Sunday. I need some bread and that comes Monday.)
knitting (did some already)

I’ve germinated some pepper seeds on Wednesday. Small roots have already sprouted and I’ve planted 4 [...]