At this point the project is moving along nicely. It Has slowed a little bit and part of that may be due to cooling temperatures. But the Compost is continuing to turn into a dark moist soil and now my little plant friends has decided to creep out of their jars. The basil in the growing bins has become quite fragrant, i really believe i need to move on and transplant the plants and start a new growing jar, and possibly a larger compost jar.
After doing some further research on the Cycles project i realized that I needed to thin the plants in the jars so that they could thrive. However over the last several weeks I have grow attached to my little plants and really do not want to just pull them up by their roots and throw them out. So I decided to attempt to transplant them.
I already had the small metal vessels that i had previously not been able to grow herbs in, I was not nearly devoted as I am now to the growth. So I took some of the same soil that is in the terrarium, I placed a few stones in the bottom of the planters to provide for drainage and filled them up. I used chopsticks to try and gently remove the young plants from the jar and then I Planted them in their new homes.
Some of the small plants did not seem to do well and were fairly lifeless after ward I am concerned that i overly damaged them even though I was very careful in moving them. I guess I will see how it goes over the next little bit. I am going to have to thin the jar further eventually so If these little ones do not make it I will get another chance.
Cycles is becoming an expanding project and I am quite enjoying where it is taking me. There are several side projects that are springing out of this one. I soon plan to plant some tulip bulbs in a planter. I once bought a live plant and then neglected it but I am curious to see if i could get this to spring back to life.
Cycles is moving forward nicely. Things are continuing to progress as i had hoped they would. My basil is growing like crazy, however I think I may have to open the growing jar in order to allow the plants to continue to grow. Also i started doing some research (Probably should have done more prior to planting) and I am going to need to thin out the plants. I plan to add this is as a secondary project to Cycles.
Cycles is starting to take on a bit of life of its own. More and more am I thinking of other things to add into the project. This started out as project that was intended to be confined to a constantly growing and a composting jar. I thought that perhaps i would start adding new jars in as the compost became soil. But now I am thinking that this project can live on a little more and grow a little more to be encompassing of more life and death cycles.
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