Has Luck Come my Way?
Green Thumb - Entry One
Good evening my fellow Steemians!
It is I, Hypexals-Spiral, here to share with you some pictures I took
while doing a small bit of gardening today.
In a previous post I shared some pictures of my wild clovers. About
a month and a half ago, I went to the local park / field and found a
thriving clover patch.
I searched very thoroughly through the patch for some 4-leaf clovers,
but alas, I didn't find any.
What I did find however, was the soil had been eroded away, exposing
the roots of this green clover plant. I harvested from that clover patch
about four or five sections of root, with clovers intact, and headed home
to plant them in some fresh, nutrient rich soil.
For the first little while they didn't do much of anything but then about 2
weeks in a noticed them start to grow, and get more green. New clovers
begun to pop up here and thereand eventually well over a month into
nurturing them, watering them, and caring for them they were thriving.
The Long Haul
It's going on month number two now, and one of them has flowered.
EXCITING! I had NO idea that clover flowered. That is soooo neat!
Here's the picture again for you to wonder about. :-)
So let's move onto the real deal here...
The clovers that survived the harvest are growing too big for their original pots.
Today, they get transplanted to a larger container, which I received from my aunt.
It's a window / balcony planter. Here:
There they are in their original vessels, sitting inside their soon-to-be vessel.
STEP 1
First, I loosened the clovers from inside their containers. This made it easy
to remove them and place into the soil.
STEP 2
Next, I filled the new, bigger planter with dirt.
STEP 3
Make room for transplant of pre-loosened clovers.
They came out really easy. I made holes for them to sit in, and them filled in dirt
around them gently, and finished up by patting down on the soil to remove any
air pockets from the soil around the root system.
STEP 4
WATER!
I finished up by giving them a fresh drink of water in their new home.
This step is very important in the process as it allows them to begin
growing and become familiar with their new surroundings.
Plants such as clover are very resilient, so I'm not worried.
They should be good in their new home for some time to come.
Here's some final shots of each plant.
Cheers!
-Hypexal