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My new sweetgrass plants... 1 month later!

THE BEFORE SHOT - May 23, 2013

Remember the sweetgrass plants I planted one month ago?  Well, we've had a lot of rain here on Long Island this past month with just a couple of days that resembled spring or summer.  I have given these plants a sprinkle of blood meal and bone meal twice this past month, as well as, some liquid fish (yucky stuff)... I think I've been successful so far... what do you think?

THE AFTER SHOT - June 22, 2013

They have grown pretty well and look strong.  The most amazing thing that has happened is not only are my new plant looking great, but I put the same food recipe on my old sad looking container of sweetgrass, boy was I thrilled!!!

This bucket of grass I have been growing for several years and the blades were never bigger than 12" long after a full growing season... that is why I bought new grass plugs...  I guess I'm going to have a lot of braiding to do this winter!!!   

My New Sweetgrass Plants are Here!!!

My new sweetgrass plants arrived this past Friday and I couldn't be more thrilled with them!  They came from Redwood City Seed Company in California.

I bought 6 plants, but to me they were more like plugs... much more than I had expected and were packaged very well.  They also came with very clear instructions for planting.  So, off to the garden center I went to buy potting mix, bone meal, blood meal and liquid fish fertilizer...

So, while my plants were soaking in the liquid fish solution, I put planting mix in the pots... added bone meal and blood meal... 

There is about a 1' of space around the plants and these pots will sit on my deck railing.  We had a gentle rain most of that day and the next, so they were off to a pretty good start... I hope.  With weekly feedings, the planters should be pretty full of sweetgrass by the end of the summer, yeah!  Wish me luck...