Yesterday after work I went home and started packing up for a weekend in the garden, and here’s mu luggage, photographed after 1 bus and 2 train rides (with the final bus ride to go):
- 1 fuchsia – purchased in pot
- 5 dahlias grown from tubers
- 24 dahlias grown from seed
- 2 dahlias grown from cuttings
- 7 tomatoes grown from seed
- 25 sweet peas grown from seed
- 2 lavenders – purchased in pots
- 20 or so gladiolus corms
- 2 dahlia tubers
-So you know; just your average luggage when going on public transport!
Good thing nobody stared at me during the journey. No sirree, nobody at all… Except, of course, everybody who saw me logging around more plants than you find on your average well-planted balcony!
Today I’m planting out the dahlias in the Sunny Border; the forecast is for fairly mild nights during the next week, so I hope they will survive the change… The Sunny Border will have no shortage of plants, that much is sure, especially if I sow a second batch so I have some spares to fill in any gaps. (Gardeners are like the royals; we should always have “an heir and a spare”, just in case… What with weather and wildlife doing as they please, we might as well be prepared!)
The fuchsia will go in a pot in the courtyard. I have no idea if it will be hardy enough for the Danish winters, so I might have to bring it inside when the frost begins, and that’s just simpler with a pot. (Plus the courtyard definitely needs some colour, and fuchsia is good at that.)
I’ve got doubts about the tomatoes; last year I grew them in a self-watering Styrofoam box, and that was actually my intention again this year, but I’m beginning to wonder whether to just plunk them in pots in the courtyard instead, or even in one of the vegetable beds (though I probably won’t do that, as space is limited there). We’ll see what happens!
I travel with plants as well but use my car. I transport tomatoes that I grow in my potting shed in New Hampshire and plant them in our vegetable garden at our summer cottage in Maine in late May.
My garden is about two hours away by public transport, so I normally take a but, a metro, a train and a bus to get there… It makes for rather awkward travelling with larger plants, but at least it’s feasible. Hooray for good public transportation!