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!