National Clean Your Home Month!
Nov. 1st, 2021 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksYo ho! Time to swab the decks and all that! It's NaClYoHo month! I've been looking forward to this for months--like a nerd.
I've got a couple definite plans for this month and then some loose ideas. Unfortunately, there's less to do in the house (how dare I do a good job last year?), which was very convenient to do for 5-10 minutes in the evening on work nights. I'll just have to figure it out as I go.
1) Repot (almost) all the succulents: Many of the plants in my collection haven't been repotted in several years. While they don't necessarily need larger/new pots, they desperately need fresh soil to give them nutrients and remove salt buildup. I want to systematically remove dead plants/empty pots, dump out used soil and mix it with fresh and compost, and repot the plants. There will be a bit of consolidating and dividing, as needed, and some things might get transferred to the in-ground planter, which is turning into a properly landscaped area.
2) Clean off the piano and surrounding area: This is my default unread mail, discarded receipts, in-progress books, and miscellaneous stuff drop zone. I need to remove stuff that isn't immediately needed and either file it away or discard it.
3) Clear a path to the server: This is a large, slate-topped piece of furniture that's been in storage since we came up here. Mum has wanted to move it into the house--there's a...semi-suitable spot picked out for it. At the moment, though, it's completely boxed in by, well, boxes. I can't winnow a lot of those boxes, as it's not my stuff, but I could reorganize and shift stuff to create a path at least. This is a project of least concern for me this month.
I don't know if I'll post every day about it, but I'll be giving periodic updates on my progress.
Today, I pulled out the aloe nursery pot, the haworthia nursery pot, and the oak leaf kalanchoe pot from the west cold frame. I also took a large aloe that was pupping out the bottom of the pot and a large agave that was pupping and outgrowing its space, and I planted them on either side of the tentacle hedge in the in-ground planter.
The aloe nursery was much too deep for the miniature aloe in there, while the haworthia nursery was just overcrowded and messy. They've all been separated out into individual pots. Some that have clumped extensively got divided and the extras were added to the in-ground planter as filler.
The kalanchoe needed deadwood removed and long branches broken off and placed to let them reroot. It's now in a bigger pot, as it had been spilling over the sides of the old one.
I now have a wheelbarrow full of extra spent soil, since two of the planters I worked on were much larger than they needed to be for the plants in them. I'm thinking of using that soil to add bulk to the flower garden. I need something to mix with all that compost I got, which will be rich enough to make up for the filler soil being a bit rubbish.
I've got a couple definite plans for this month and then some loose ideas. Unfortunately, there's less to do in the house (how dare I do a good job last year?), which was very convenient to do for 5-10 minutes in the evening on work nights. I'll just have to figure it out as I go.
1) Repot (almost) all the succulents: Many of the plants in my collection haven't been repotted in several years. While they don't necessarily need larger/new pots, they desperately need fresh soil to give them nutrients and remove salt buildup. I want to systematically remove dead plants/empty pots, dump out used soil and mix it with fresh and compost, and repot the plants. There will be a bit of consolidating and dividing, as needed, and some things might get transferred to the in-ground planter, which is turning into a properly landscaped area.
2) Clean off the piano and surrounding area: This is my default unread mail, discarded receipts, in-progress books, and miscellaneous stuff drop zone. I need to remove stuff that isn't immediately needed and either file it away or discard it.
3) Clear a path to the server: This is a large, slate-topped piece of furniture that's been in storage since we came up here. Mum has wanted to move it into the house--there's a...semi-suitable spot picked out for it. At the moment, though, it's completely boxed in by, well, boxes. I can't winnow a lot of those boxes, as it's not my stuff, but I could reorganize and shift stuff to create a path at least. This is a project of least concern for me this month.
I don't know if I'll post every day about it, but I'll be giving periodic updates on my progress.
Today, I pulled out the aloe nursery pot, the haworthia nursery pot, and the oak leaf kalanchoe pot from the west cold frame. I also took a large aloe that was pupping out the bottom of the pot and a large agave that was pupping and outgrowing its space, and I planted them on either side of the tentacle hedge in the in-ground planter.
The aloe nursery was much too deep for the miniature aloe in there, while the haworthia nursery was just overcrowded and messy. They've all been separated out into individual pots. Some that have clumped extensively got divided and the extras were added to the in-ground planter as filler.
The kalanchoe needed deadwood removed and long branches broken off and placed to let them reroot. It's now in a bigger pot, as it had been spilling over the sides of the old one.
I now have a wheelbarrow full of extra spent soil, since two of the planters I worked on were much larger than they needed to be for the plants in them. I'm thinking of using that soil to add bulk to the flower garden. I need something to mix with all that compost I got, which will be rich enough to make up for the filler soil being a bit rubbish.
