Expanding my collection

Well today after one of my plant classes, me and a professor of mine went up to my university greenhouse complex to see how some of the plants I'm growing there are doing. While their I collected some more spices and herbs that I will now be growing. The parsley that I had died so he gave me a new planting of parsley which is in the front left container. Next to it is some oregano which I will look up its requirements later. In the front left is a thing of green beans that were growing for my little brothers science project. In the back two slots are spearmint and lavender.
In addition to gaining these plants, I have also been looking around for a small greenhouse I can have outside. I am thinking of getting a $70 greenhouse that's roughly 5 1/2' by 51/2' by 7'.
I think that's about it for today. If anyone has questions about landscape plants it would actually help me to help you. Got lots of plants I have to know for exams.

Moving and correcting

Well this morning I went into our sunroom and thought it would probably be best for me to move the Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as tomato, out of the acid plant bin, as it requires alkaline soil. When I lifted it however, I noticed its roots were far past growing out. So, remembering that I planted some Allium sativum, garlic, a few days ago, and garlic being a good companion plant for tomatoes, I planted this tomato plant outside.
I would however like to correct a statement I made in my first post. I was looking up hardiness of poinsettias and realized that they are subtropical shrubs. They can only survive in zone 10-11 making them only good as indoor plants for most of us. Because they are tropical plants you can also guess they like acidic soils. Most tropical soil is acidic while inlands are more alkaline.
If any of you have questions just send me a message and I'll answer you.

Welcome to my Blog!

Hello! I'd first like to start off saying welcome to my blog! Here I will be posting about plants, both woody and herbaceous, that I am either planning on buying/planting or which I am currently growing. I will also be telling you cool homemade ideas that I've used for fertilizer for each of my plants. 

As of right now, I have growing three woody perennials, Punica granatum, pomegranate, Persea americana, avocado, and Cercis canadensis, eastern redbud. All of these woody plants are good plants that can survive in the hardiness zone of 7, which encompasses Maryland, DC, Virginia, and a few states surrounding them. You can figure out your state's hardiness zone with this map.

For the plants I just mentioned, Pomegranate, for those who've never had it, is a tropical fruiting plant, although you'll learn quickly that the term fruit can be a very broad for me. It can survive hardiness zones of 7-10, meaning that for those of you up in Northern US, you need to keep this plant inside in the winter. For the second plant I mentioned, avocado, it is a southern US native, as you could probably guess from the specific epithet americana. Like pomegranate, it does better in warmer tropical climates but does have a hardiness zone from 7-9. The third and final plant I mentioned, Eastern redbud, it is a good US native plant with bean pods for fruit, as its part of the Fabaceae (legume) family, and beautiful reddish pink flowers that bloom all along the branches. This plant has a hardiness zone of 4-9, making it good for almost every portion of the US except for maybe southern Florida and Maine. I'll go more into specifics of each of these plants requirements on later days but for now I feel I should mention my non-woody, herbaceous plants.

Alongside these wonderful woody plants, which essentially means that the plants have a "wood" structure to them, I have a small tomato plant that's growing quite well. If you want a secret to growing this plant, save some egg shells and crumble them up in the soil. It made my tomato plant shoot up like crazy. Additionally, I have some tiny "miniature" poinsettias from Christmas time which I grew in a greenhouse class in the fall. The tomato plant was also in this class. In addition to these herbaceous crops, I am also growing some spices. From the grocery store I work at, I bought a small planting of rosemary and cilantro which I am growing on either side of the eastern redbud and near the tomato and poinsettias I am growing a small cup of basil, which I received for free from my school. Pictures will most like be put up soon so all of you can see each of the plants. Take care and happy gardening!