So I made yet another trip to Bunnings. I gotta stop going there, I’m always finding stuff I want to buy and try to do.

Anyway, so I went there to get some jiffy pellets in preparation to plant some seeds. I had received the okra and dwarf hollyhock seeds from an Oztion auction (still no signs of the Garden Express order!) and wanted to start the hollyhock since it can take up to 4 weeks to germinate. I’ll probably start the tomato and okra seeds in a couple of week’s time.

As always, I took a walk through the plants section and found some pretty succulents I’d like to plant into a couple of tin cans. I’m getting crafty here and making my own pots out of recycled containers. I’m also going to paint a couple of terracotta pots to match my collection of dark coloured pots, but that’s another story.

The succulents I chose were:

• Echeveria pulvinata
• Echeveria runyonii “Topsy Turvy”
• Echeveria Blue Curl
• Some unnamed succulent

Now I need to find some gravel and coarse sand to increase the drainage before I plant the succulents in their new pots.