More lessons learned from my first attempt at gardening

Ah lessons learned from my adventures in gardening. LOL ENJOY

1. Sometimes plants kill other plants... My basil and my catnip killed my spinach. Boo

2. Sometimes Dahlia's grow more like a bush and BIG. Yes that is my cat next to this beast.

3. My cilantro did something odd. I have these like balls, very aromatic. I have to look this up.

4. Polka dot plants can grow high and also produce these cute and tiny little purple flowers.

 

5. Here is regular cilantro.

 

6. Green peppers seem to grow in spurts for me. Might be the temperature.

 

Yay for spicy peppers. I can't wait to use these. They are growing like weeds for me! yay!

 

This is what happens when you don't seal the inside and outside of a terra cotta plant pot. Can you see the bubbles from the glitter paint?

 

There will probably be more to come. I am always learning.

Cheers,
Lauren

My first peppers... a lesson learned

So I have a bunch of things growing on my patio. It is so much fun. Here are my first peppers! Yay!

However there is an important lesson learned here.... don't let the peppers get too close to the metal railings in the heat as they will literally melt the peppers.....

Poor guys, here is what they looked like from the inside. Sadness. 

I have some more peppers growing and away from the metal. They look better already!!!! But lesson learned! 

xoxoxo,

Lauren

Garden fit for a diva day 5:Mod podge glitter planters #2

Last day of my garden fit for a diva!!! Today I am messing with covering regular plastic pots with modge podge and glitter. I didn't know if it could be done or not but let me tell you-yes it can!

So basically I took my plastic garden pot, added a nice thick layer of outdoor modge podge and covered with glitter. Let dry. Repeat. Dry. Add a final layer of modge podge but no glitter.

Spray with clear acrylic gloss. Done. I transplanted my squash sprouts into this and wow, just WOW my squash literally in a short period of time has blown up!

This is sparkly and looks great in the sun. The only issue I have had and you can see in the first picture that where the water hits on the bottom edge things are beginning to peel off. I need a stand or something to put underneath so the paint glitter doesn't just stand in the water for long periods of time.

When I first started my garden and some of the pictures that you have seen was in the beginning here is an update. Things are growing like crazy

And if you don't know many of these things are grown straight from seed (not the cacti tho) how awesome is that!!

I am looking forward to where my garden will grow and sparkle at the same time. If not my dirt will look good... :)

Cheers,
Lauren

Garden fit for a Diva Day 4:Pink Glitter Plant Markers

Can you tell I am excited about my garden? You know I just love my garden fit for a diva. Today I am trying out how things respond to glitter paint on my wooden plant markers.
Unfortunately I took no before pictures just while they were in progress. Basically here is what I did...

I painted the stakes with paint. Then I used my 2 pink glitter acrylic paints, 2 version of it. And I just kept adding layer after layer. Here are them drying layer after layer. Yes this took awhile.

Now here in my plants. I like my glitter ones slightly better but I still like the pink. 

Here is my latest plating... Calla lilies. I can't wait for them to start growing!!

Not going to lie my patio is pretty sparkly and i LOVE it!

xoxoxo,
Lauren

Garden Fit for a Diva Part 3: blue glitter with paint plant pots

More planters! This time I painted the pots with blue paint before I added glitter. Because I thought sometimes you could see the orange of the terra cotta through it.

I also tried a little of the glitter paint too. 

But I could not resist the sparkly blue glitter. OMG it is to DIE for!

Drool!

Again spray. 

You can see some of the blue glitter pots. These are probably my favorite! They sparkle so nicely on my patio in the sun.

Ahhh. I love my plants!

xoxo,
Lauren

Garden fit for a Diva part 2: Multi color glitter/mod podge plant pots

Day 2 of my garden crafts! This one I am usually free glitter-nothing from paint glitter. So yes this makes my house messy. To do this I need mod podge! Now there are various types of mod podge- since the plant pots are going outside-I opted for the OUTDOOR version.

I had this in my craft bin, tulip glitter. 

I combined all glitter into one b/c separately I didn't know if I could cover a pot. 

Mix and mix well. 

So I take my pot. I covered the ground with several layers of wax paper to catch the free glitter. 

coat with the mod podge

Add glitter!

shake off excess. 

in the second round I went for thicker layer of mod podge

I did 2 coats of glitter. 

Again I sprayed with the clear gloss acrylic spray both inside and outside. I did several coats.

Here is one of my pots close up. With my pretty pink leaf plant. 

Here are more pictures.

You saw my previous multi glitter plant stakes, this is also what I created.

Yay! Got to love glitter!

xoxoxo,
Lauren

Garden Fit for a Diva: Part 1, paint glitter plant pots

I have decided to take up gardening on my patio. I have no idea what has gotten into me but I just felt the need to try to grow plants. I am not known to have a green thumb. I actually killed lucky bamboo in the past in Alabama. Usually plants went to my place to die. I was bound to change that this year. Here is a preview of some of my plants! Now to show you what I did! All this week I will feature my crafts for the garden.

I can't lie but I find most plant pots boring and dull. I just wanted something sparkly and shinny. I found this fabric paint/glitter in my craft bin and thought I would make several pots with this. I had several colors in this paint.

I selected terra cotta pots in various sizes. 

Brush on. And on. And on. Let them dry between coats. 

The black was not so successful. I wound up covering that with another glitter. 

Here they are drying. 

Then I sprayed them with clear gloss acrylic spray. I did it on my patio b/c it is stinky!!! Spray the outside and the inside. Terra cotta  is very porous.

Here is my sparkly garden! Even if everything dies my dirt looks pretty!

These are my Dahlia's growing from bulb!

I am so excited! :) Yay! I have a few more pots! And I can say is after several weeks, the pots are doing well with being in the heat. No bubbling or anything. They are holding up well.

xoxoxo,
Lauren