Is this a blog or a gardening guide /lh
Mind you, they’re basically synonymous when it comes to you
Probably your foraging book and tictac
I just remembered that this is a blog and not just a foraging guide so I’ll actually start journaling here now
Today was pretty funny since we had a sub 5th and 2nd. Since it’s exam season all the rooms were upturned so our teacher wasnt able to teach us AND our room had an exam in it.
For some unknown reason though the school hadn’t given us a sub or a room for second period, since no sub showed up and there was another lesson in the room we were meant to go to.
In the end we just stood in the hallway for about twenty minutes talking until an SLT came along and told us to go into the classroom of a teacher who wasn’t teaching
While we were waiting we found a half eaten chocolate cake in a locker that had no padlock, according to some other people in my class it had been there since the start of the year . Somehow it wasn’t mouldy
5th period wasn’t that crazy, it was just the average lesson with a substitute teacher.
Honestly I’m just glad the school day’s over since today is the last day before I’m off for a week! The last five minutes of 5th period were honestly the longest minutes of my life
Ok I’m gonna write a guide for foraging cherries now
I honestly can’t believe that I haven’t done this one sooner, considering that cherries are one of my all time favourite fruits, and since they grow pretty much all over the uk
First of all, identification: once you know what cherry trees look like, you can pretty easily identify them from far away. The main thing you need to know about are the leaves.
Cherry tree leaves look like this and are present on both ornamental and sweet cherry trees.
To tell the difference between ornamental and sweet cherries, you have to look specifically at the flowers and the fruit.
Ornamental cherry trees will have the distinctive pink sakura blossoms (
) and tiny, hard fruits that don’t ripen to edibility. Sweet cherry trees have white blossoms and fruit that starts out green and about the maximum size of the ornamental varieties, and grows and ripens into dark red fruits about the size of a grape.
Usually, the trees flower around april and early may, and fruit becomes ripe at about June. You have to make sure you get to the fruit before the birds do though! They will eat all of it if you aren’t ready to go out and pick it
One thing that should be noted is that all other parts if the cherry tree is poisonous and shouldn’t be eaten. This means the stones, wood, leaves and bark should never be eaten. It is fine if you accidently swallow the stone, but just don’t chew them. It only takes two of them fully chewed and swallowed it kill an adult!
As always, make sure you don’t take too many from one plant, and make sure you leave plenty for the birds and other wildlife.
Happy foraging!
(Ps, I’ll probably be doing elder trees next time, since they are on bloom at the moment)
As I was typing the end of this, I came across a cherry tree with some unripe cherries on them. You can get a better look at the size of the unripe fruit and the shape of the leaves on the picture
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lovely as always :).
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Hey guys! I realised earlier that I haven’t actually talked about my plants that I grow yet, so I’m gonna write down all the background information and context and stuff so that I can give updates about my plants here!
So I’ll start with the outdoor plants I have in my garden since those are probably the easiest to start with.
I just wanna note that I only started doing gardening about a month or two ago, whereas I have been growing plants inside for a couple years now.
so in my garden I have:
-4 forget me not plants (originally grown inside around winter 2023, since they are biennial and take two years to grow. They are flowering right now, they are blue!)
-6 berry bushes (3 strawberry plants, one of which was in the garden before I started working on it, and three bushes I got from Asda about a month ago: loganberries, gooseberries and blackberries (thornless))
-Many many pea plants (I had originally planted them in one trough but I planted them by sprinkling the seeds in…which was a bad move. I later transplanted them to three troughs and still had loads of pea shoots that I didn’t have room for, so I ate them.)
-peonies (in my Asda trip I bought a few flowers roots, peonies being one of them. They have actually sprouted which was good)
-agapanthus (another Asda root, they have actually sprouted and are fairly small right now! There were two bulbs)
-nerine bowdenni (these haven’t sprouted yet, they are another Asda root, there was three of the bulbs)
-freesias (these haven’t sprouted yet either, but I really hope they do since I love the flowers. There were 15 of the bulbs in total)
-hosta (my grandpa gave me one of his hosta plants, currently it is doing just fine and is putting out new leaves slowly! Slugs can be a problem with these but they haven’t been touched once)
-hop vines (original was a gift my mum got for my dad since he loves beer. They have been in my garden for several years but have never really flowered. I’m hoping that this year or next year they will be able to flower since I’m taking care of them)
-pear tree (I bought this when I went to Asda for 11 pounds. It was already as tall as me but it has no leaves when I bought it. A couple weeks later and now it has many many leaves and is doing great!)
-birch tree (this one is a real mystery, I was looking through the garden before I started work on it, and I noticed that one of the pots had two of those strawberry plants and a birch tree, we don’t know where it came from but it’s about thirty centimeters big)
-cherry tree (my dad planted this from a cherry pit in lockdown. It’s fairly large now, but is unfortunately infested with black cherry aphids. I’m spraying it down with washing up liquid and water every day to kill the aphids, so hopefully it’ll be able to recover)
I also want to note that I did try to grow lavender, but I planted the seeds too deep so they didn’t sprout. I also have two plum seeds that I got out of the stone that I am trying to germinate and put outside.
Ok, thats basically it for my outdoor plants! I’ll work on typing up about my indoor plants now!
laughs/rotates in plant
Ok I forgot about the indoor plants thing but I’m so happy rn
I specifically stayed up late since the weather forecast said that it was gonna rain tonight.
And it finally started raining! This is the first rain we’ve had in a while, and honestly I’m happy that it’s raining again.
Anyway I’m gonna go to bed now so byee
Huh its raining rn
Most underwhelming rain ever it rained for like 15m bro
It rained all night
Oh when i looked it stopped lmao
Ok so I kinda forgot to post anything today since I’m basically recovering from school lol. I’ll probably write a foraging guide tomorrow ok byeee
I wasn’t gonna post anything today because of the same reason as yesterday, but I just got hit by late night motivation so here’s what I did with my day:
I started off eating fruit , playing stardew valley and checking my garden in the morning, and after I had ate breakfast I then just kinda walked around my house bored for a bit and then got changed.
I then decided that I wanted to make an origami bouquet for this vase that usually sits on a windowsill empty, so I was looking up different origami flowers to make it out of. After making about 5 origami roses I decided I wanted to make a different type of flower, but every tutorial I did either took ages, was too difficult or needed materials I didn’t have, so I decided to just make a bouquet of roses instead.
Right now it’s sitting at 6 roses but in hoping to finish it either tommorow or the day after. After that I just layed in bed and doomscrolled because I was honestly out of energy at that point (and we also had basically nothing to snack on since we were out of fruit)
After I ate tea (or dinner or whatever you wanna call it) and went in the shower, I got a bit more energy so I decided to water my plants and do a bunch of plants chores.
Ok I’m gonna write down all my indoor plants like I did with my garden plants now so I can give you the updates
Ok nvm I’ll do it tommorow morning when I’m bored instead lol
Hey guys, uh I don’t really know how to start this but im holding back tears as I’m writing this. My dad is driving us to some museum somewhere and as we were driving, we were behind a lorry carrying propane. My dad started talking about the grounding strip that was on the back trailing on the ground (so that the lorry wouldn’t explode if it got hit by lighting) and I started having what I think was an anxiety attack. It was at its worst when we were overtaking the lorry and my window was about 30cm away from the tank. I’m starting to calm down a bit now but I still feel it a bit
I was thinking of watching final destination but Im rethinking that now since I don’t think I’d be able to handle it
It’s been 20 minutes, you okay now?
Yeah
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