The rosemary rooted!

I hope you can see the little roots on the bottom of the glass. All three of the rosemary shoots we clipped have starting sprouting little roots. I will leave them in the cup until they are longer and we will plant them.

We recently got a plot in a community garden you have no idea how this excites me. I am a simple girl and it doesnt take much. We noticed some barbels growing where an old fence use to be and we asked a professor who was tending her garden if she knew anything about them. She told us that they were raspberries and that we could dig some up if we wanted. We dug up two because we really had no idea where we were going to put them when we got home. One of them came up nice with a big clod of dirt and the other did not. All the dirt fell off but we took it anyway. We got them home found a sunny spot and planted. the next day they looked like this.

As you can see the one that the dirt fell away from the roots looks as if its dying and the one that looks healthy is the one that stayed in tact.  Now that we found the perfect spot we plan on getting a few more. So excited to find free food!

In the community garden there was this awesome grapevine. I asked the professor if she knew how old it was. She told us there had been three houses on that property and when they had torn them down the vine had been saved and one of the grounds keepers at the university had saved the grape vine. From the size she guessed it was 30-40 years old. Does that give you goosebumps? I wonder if the wild raspberries we dug up had such a history.

Gardening is a lot of trial and error. It makes me  so sad when someone feels they have failed at trying to grow something and they just stop. If Mr Ladybug and I did that we would still have a yard full of grass. Its very important to talk to people who you know are successful at gardening. We only pay attention to youtube videos where they are showing their harvest and how it got there. We took a mushroom log class and we saw a video a few days later and the person was doing all the things they told us not to do in class. There was also no follow up video showing us all his mushrooms later either.
If gardening is something that you have always wanted to do please try it. You dont have to dig up your yard to get started. Just get a container and fill it with good dirt.  Tomorrow I will show you how I plan on starting some wild garlic I found at the garden plot in a cottage cheese container. Its really that easy and cheap!